Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!ncar!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: HPFS for Windows (was Re: Sound under Windows...) Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 19:06:28 GMT References: <26332@cs.yale.edu> <3399@gmdzi.gmd.de> <26382@cs.yale.edu> <1990Sep28.191613.14888@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@seri.gov (news) Distribution: na Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 15 tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes: >The solution is exactly the same as for OS/2 1.2: mark applications with >a flag that says "I know about long filenames". If the flag is off, the >application can only access files with 8+3 character filenames. What happens when you create a bunch of files with long names and then want to use them with old applications? Do you have to rename them first? It seems to me that HPFS would have limited utility until the vast majority of your software supported it. -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Missionary VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future