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From: Conrad.Bullock@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Conrad Bullock)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HPFS : How-Pathetic-File that-Sucks
Message-ID: <1991Jun09.085344.7395@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 9 Jun 91 08:53:44 GMT
References: <13213@aggie.ucdavis.edu>
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
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In article <13213@aggie.ucdavis.edu> s142029@fred.ucdavis.edu writes:
>     You have created a file on HPFS with filename abcdefghihj.klmnop.qrstuv,
>on you hard disk.  But then there's no way for you to back it up on the floppy
>with the original name.  So you save it with abcdefgh.klm .  So what's the use
>of HPFS anyway ?
>
>PS:  Hey, IBM and MS, here's one problem that should be solved with version 2.0.Anyone has information about this ?

OS/2 comes with a program which copies the full file information,
including the full filename, to floppy. For the life of me I can't
remember what the name of the command is. I guess that it stores the
full name as an extra EA on the floppy.

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