From:	"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Short file names
Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:29:40 -0500
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote:
>
> > Make 2 files, on named "a.cpp" and another named "a.cpp~" (I was using emacs
> > when I discovered this), the SFN's for these files will likely be "a.cpp" and
> > "a~1.cpp".  Now try copying both files to another directory.  There is a 50%
> > chance that one of the files will dissapear!
>
> Yep, a known misfeature in Windows' half-hearted implementation of
> long file names.  But what alternative does one have if one wants a
> dual-boot DOS/Windows system?  AFAIK, there is no alternative.  If you
> could turne the numeric tails off, you probably don't need a dual
> system, in which case you shouldn't be turning them on in the first
> place.

I occationally boot to DOS, and I had NNT off when I installed DJGPP which fixes
most of the problems, but I generally prefer to have NNT off even in Windows
because I have a personal objection to NNT.

> (How frequently do you copy directories *and* care about backups on
> top of that, anyway?)

    Well, I was trying to syncronize some projects between a Zip disk and my
hard-drive.  I could have deleted all of the "*~" files before syncronizing, but
there were lots of directories and that was tedious.  I didn't really care if the
backup file(s) dissapeared, but I did care when the non-backup(s) dissapeared.

--
(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)

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