Hi Sergei,
> Petri wrote:
>
> > Anyway, what did Sergei (I *think* it was him) need LFNs for? It's much
> > easier for me to explain something when I can give an example...
>
> I needed them when running under Windows, and can't have
> access to some files with very long filenames (more than
> 64, 15-16 symbols from beginning same).
>
> I think that exist some way to force Arachne, launched under
> windows, understand windows's names.
> Now i can see than i'm only one here who need it.
No, you are not the only one who would find this useful. I can give
another example.
I am a consulting industrial chemist, specialising in chemical safety and
regulation compliance. As part of my work, I am compiling a data base
(=collection) of HTML files of chemical data, downloaded from the web sites of
a large number of chemical suppliers. On these sites, the HTML files are
stored with long file names. Unfortunately my system (DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1)
cannot handle long file names, and I find the downloads of consecutive file
names end up with only the last one, because each one has over-written the
previous one if the first six characters are the same. i.e. nnnnnn~1.htm.
THIS CAN BE IRRITATING !!!!!!
It would be nice to use a browser that could keep these consecutive file
names separate.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
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