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From: emmonsl@athena.ecs.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
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Subject: Re: Long File Names under MSDOS?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 18:11:44 GMT
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In article <21980.27caf279@cluster@ukc.ac.uk> cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager) writes:
>OS/2 allows long (up to 254/255 chars) on an HPFS file system. It's wonderful!
>I have moved several programs from UNIX systems with no real trouble, other
>than preserving the names during the transfer.

Another wonderful thing is that HPFS allows you to use lowercase filenames
(although they aren't case sensitive for access).  It's great for those of
us who don't like file directories YELLING at us in uppercase... :)

			L. Scott Emmons
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