On Nov 8, 2022, 01:58, Ralf Quint wrote:
But I only use this feature sparingly, as there are a lot of older software that can't handle them. And the mapping to some xyz~1.abc is actually losing two significant characters of those 8 available for generally usable filenames.
On Linux, you can mount a FAT filesystem with the mount option "nonumtail", where you don't get the trailing "~1" at the end when it is still possible, e.g. when there are no other files with the same name. Example: "longfilename.txt" would become "LONGFILE.TXT" in 8.3, but if you then create a second file of the name "longfile.txt", you'd have a problem. (It would probably become "LONGFI~1.TXT", because "LONGFILE.TXT" already existed.) Also, yet another file "longfilenamelist.txt" would then have to become something else, e.g. "LONGFI~2.TXT". Anyhow, the point is, there would be other ways... Cheers, A. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
