From: kayvan@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) Subject: Re: longer filenames dilemma Date: 28 May 1992 06:08:25 GMT
In article <1992May27.164649.11369@overload.lbl.gov> rob@cad4.lbl.gov (Robert J. McNamara) writes:
>make it much easier to implement and test it. Another filesystem that
>would be nice to have is a MS-DOS filesystem, so that people would be
>able to access a DOS filesystem transparently from Linux, without
>needing to use the mcopy, mdir commands.
And get stuck with the 8.3 filenames? Ugh....Howabout the OS/2 HPFS
filesystem? (or is that protected?)
Why would you be "stuck" with it? It's an added capability, and adds
more options.
---Kayvan
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