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From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: Re: HPFS : How-Pathetic-File that-Sucks
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.172733.21237@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 17:27:33 GMT
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If you copy the file with the long name from HPFS to the floppy using
the PM file manager, it creates a EA ".LONGNAME" containing the original
name. When restoring the file back from the floppy onto a HPFS using PM
file manager again, it recognizes this EA and renames the file to its
original name.

You have more choices. You can use an archiver that supports long HPFS
file names (ZOO, C-LHarc, LH2 or the ZIP coming soon from Info-ZIP) to
put the file into an archive on the floppy. Also, you can create TAR
floppies with GNU tar for OS/2 just like under Unix and read the floppy
onto another HPFS.

Kai Uwe Rommel

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DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams