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Re: Revised Namespace Proposal

• Posted by Gerardo <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM> Jul 06, 2001
• 444 views

Tone,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tone Skoda" <tone.skoda at siol.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Revised Namespace Proposal


> > Couldn't a lfn (including blanks) be converted to the internal DOS 8.3
> name,
> > which is what Windows actually does? Then 'Program Files' becomes
> > 'progra~1', and everybody's happy...
> >
> > Gerardo
>
> What if you have \Program Files and \Program Files2
> They get translated to \progra~1 and \progra~2 and you don't know which is
> which.

Of course. Right now a DOS DIR of my Program Files folder includes

MICROS~1       <DIR>        30/07/99  16.41 Microsoft NetShow
MICROS~2       <DIR>        30/07/99  17.10 Microsoft Office
MICROS~3       <DIR>        04/11/99  13.19 Microsoft Batch 98
MICROS~4       <DIR>        21/10/00  21.38 Microsoft GIF Animator
...
NORTON~1       <DIR>        29/08/99  22.27 Norton Utilities
NORTON~2       <DIR>        29/08/99  22.30 Norton Crashguard
NORTON~3       <DIR>        29/08/99  22.30 Norton Web Services

This is obviously not a good solution, but it allows for lfn's without any
basic changes. Most people are running Windows, even if they sometimes work
in DOS, so this is a common occurrence for them. Straight Windows users
wouldn't even notice.

Gerardo