Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aunro!ersys!bking From: bking@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Barry King) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: HPFS : How-Pathetic-File that-Sucks Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 05:20:52 GMT References: <1991Jun09.085344.7395@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada Lines: 27 Conrad.Bullock@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Conrad Bullock) writes: > 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 flop > >with the original name. So you save it with abcdefgh.klm . So what's the u > >of HPFS anyway ? > > > >PS: Hey, IBM and MS, here's one problem that should be solved with version > > 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. > > -- > Conrad Bullock | Domain: conrad@comp.vuw.ac.nz > Victoria University of Wellington, | or: conrad@cavebbs.gen.nz > New Zealand. | Fidonet: 3:771/130 > | BBS: The Cave BBS +64 4 643429 Are you thinking of EAUTIL.EXE? Barry King bking@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton Remote Systems: Serving Northern Alberta since 1982