From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Subject: Re: DR-DOS and linux boot, 14 char filenames Date: 9 Sep 1992 18:38:51 GMT
In article <1992Sep8.113230.1588@fwi.uva.nl> stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram) writes:
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>Hi,
>
>[Remy CARD on the subject of filename length:]
>
>> Note that the limitation to 255 character is not really needed: with
>>1k blocks, we could limit the file names to 1012 characters (the header of a
^^^^
1016 (I was wrong in my previous post).
>>directory entry is 8 bytes long) but I think that 255 is quite enough.
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>255 long enough?
>Hell no...
>Watch what happened to me...
>This is a listing of one of my directories:
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>total 332
>drwx------ 2 stolk 512 Aug 24 15:19 ./
>drwxr-xr-x 14 stolk 1024 Sep 8 12:53 ../
>-rw-r--r-- 1 stolk 1581 Jan 26 1992 4d
>-rw------- 1 stolk 2617 Jun 18 1991 authors.sw
>-r--r--r-- 1 stolk 6224 Aug 27 1991 clock.exe
>-r--r--r-- 1 stolk 3139 Aug 27 1991 clock.pas
>-rw-r--r-- 1 stolk 2865 Jun 4 10:38 install.X11
>-rw-r--r-- 1 stolk 6634 Nov 14 1991 models.3d
>-rw------- 1 stolk 3954 Feb 27 1992 sigs
>-rw------- 1 stolk 301325 Sep 8 1992 linux.src.ver.0.97.patchlevel.4.betarelease.use.at.your.own.risk.released.at.8.september.includes.mem_manager.filesyst.extended_filesystem.kernel.internet_drivers.and.X11.support.with_shared_libs_for_use_with_gcc.2.2.2.d.p3.tar.arc.zip.lha.zoo.arj.bak.old
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>Now at this directory I did:
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>% compress linux.*
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>And guess what?
>'compress' messed up my files, because the .Z couldnt be added to the
>filename again.
>Could someone please remove that horrible 255 char limit? :-)
Damned !! I should have tought of such descriptive names when implementing
the directory handling routines in the ext fs !!! I feel confused for that 8-}
>
> Bram Stolk
> stolk@fwi.uva.nl