From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Tue Sep 14 16:30:51 2004 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:59:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim DeClercq To: Frederic Fouche Cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] fstat long filename on TOS partition In-Reply-To: <20040914083343.4670.qmail@web13424.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20040914083343.4670.qmail@web13424.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: jimd@panix.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel One vote for 5+3.3 shortened file names. That is the first five characters and the last three characters, and a three-character extension. This, I think, has a better chance of making a recognizeable shortened file name out of a long file name. Jim On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Frederic Fouche wrote: > Hello, > > Having a little problem here: > > i have a program that will write long filenames. I expected > that if it wrote them to my C partition, (TOS FAT 16), it will > shorten the filename. The program (not mine) does some fstat, > could that create problems with standard TOS partition? > > As soon as I switch the C partition to VFAT, or use ext2fs > partition it all works fine. > > What should be the behavior when trying to write long filenames > to a standard TOS partition? what should i do? Thank you >