On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> petri.....which means that we don't have to worry about buggering
> about with the file system (a lot of work) but just about coping with
> and responding to (insome way) ADDITIONAL information tacked on to
> whatever filesystem/filename we encounter in Arachne....???
Uh, the LFN's are stored as *volume labels*, so you'll have to do stuff
with the file system anyway. Or, you could always use the LFN libraries
avaliable, but as said, they are a bit bad. :) But anyway, my point was
just that the LFNs aren't part of the FAT standard, Arachne is a DOS
program, DOS doesn't use LFNs (usually), and thus needn't Arachne
either. =) Under Linux, though, long file names exist, but that's an
entirely different story.....you just treat long and short file names
equally. No special code required. =) (btw....how much work has been done
on Arachne/linux? I forgot =P)
/petri
