Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: HPFS for Windows (was Re: Sound under Windows...) Message-ID: <3407@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 28 Sep 90 10:46:20 GMT References: <26332@cs.yale.edu> <3399@gmdzi.gmd.de> <26382@cs.yale.edu> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 19 spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes: >strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes: >>spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky (thats me[no that's he!])) writes: >>>InfoWeek I think said Microsoft was considering HPFS for a future >>>version of Windows, now that they are basically dumping OS/2. This >>>would be amazingly cool! Break every existing application, though... >>Why should this break existing applications? >Because just about every DOS application I know of makes assumptions >about the maximum length of file names. Sure, but this is true for programs written for OS/2 version 1.0 and 1.1, too. If memory serves me right, one has to mark a program as HPFS aware in order to get access to files with names which don't fit into the 8.3 scheme. If you don't mark it, a program can make the very same assumptions it can make under DOS. I wouldn't call this "break every existing application". Wolfgang Strobl #include