On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:50:57 +0200, Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
> Sergei
> --
OK, now that I understand what you need.<g>
The problem is actually with MSDOS version 7. (not with Arachne)
To demonstrate...
Open an MSDOS prompt and try to show a long file name in a directory
listing.
Not only will each file be shown as 8.3
But, each directory name will also show as 8.3
Arachne itself actually _can_ recognize the long_file_name.
But only if the Operating system that sends the file name actually sends
the "long_name" and _not_ it's "shortened_name".
In the case of accessing a long file name on your HDD, it's MSDOS 7
that is sending the short_name to Arachne instead of the long_name.
Web servers send the long_name and Arachne receives them just fine.
I just "fired-up" Win95 and from an MSDOS prompt I typed this,
c> dir c:\progra~1\*.* > i:\1recv\lfns_ns.txt
----lfns_ns.txt---
Volume in drive C is W95
Volume Serial Number is 3826-1A06
Directory of C:\Program Files
. <DIR> 02-25-99 7:00p .
. <DIR> 02-25-99 7:00p ..
ACCESS~1 <DIR> 02-25-99 7:00p Accessories
COMMON~1 <DIR> 02-25-99 7:11p Common Files
DIRECTX <DIR> 02-25-99 7:04p DIRECTX
ICW-IN~1 <DIR> 02-25-99 7:00p ICW-Internet Connection Wizard
MICROS~1 <DIR> 02-25-99 7:11p Microsoft Reference
NETZERO <DIR> 07-19-99 8:22p NetZero
PRODNET <DIR> 02-27-99 6:41p Prodnet
QUICKT~1 <DIR> 04-15-99 10:36p QuickTime
WINDOW~2 <DIR> 02-25-99 9:14p Windows Media Player
WINZIP <DIR> 02-25-99 9:09p WinZip
0 file(s) 0 bytes
12 dir(s) 913,608,704 bytes free
---------------------------
As you see, MSDOS 7 showed the short_names
I then "fired-up" Arachne in an MSDOS window from within W95.
Attached is the directory listing of c:\progra~1\*.* which MSDOS 7
sent to Arachne.
Also find attached, the directory listing sent to Arachne by an
Apache web server.
As you can see, Apache sends the long_name. (and Arachne can access
the links to those long_names)
I hope this information has been helpful.
--
Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
Title: C:\progra~1\*.*
| Current path | C:\arachne | Volume | W95 |
| File mask | C:\progra~1\*.* | Free space | 892192 KB |
\\ | C:\ | ..\ |
| ||
access~1\ | common~1\ | directx\ | icw-in~1\ | micros~1\ | |
netzero\ | prodnet\ | quickt~1\ | window~2\ | winzip\ | |
(10 items listed) Title: Index of /pub/mirrors/Doom
Index of /pub/mirrors/Doom
Name Last modifi d Size Description
Parent Directory 16-Sep-1999 08:39 -
00_CDROM.html 10-Oct-1996 00:00 3k
LAST.24hours 14-Jan-2000 07:03 1k
combos/ 02-Jan-2000 01:14 -
ls-laR.gz 14-Jan-2000 07:48 200k
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