Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:17:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Behzad SAFARI <safari AT ecoledoc DOT ibp DOT fr>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Sorry, but i have a question.
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On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Behzad SAFARI wrote:

> I have a some files which thier names contain more 8 caracteres in 
> UNIX system. What i do to portabilite my files in MS_DOS without 
> changing thier names ?

You should make sure the filenames are all unique in their first 8
characters of the basename (sans the extension), or that the first 3
characters of the extension are different.  For example, these filenames
will be different on DOS: 

	file1-long.extension-long
	file2-long.extension-long
	file1-long.another-one

while these filenames cannot be distinguished under DOS and will make 
trouble:

	filename1-long.extension-long
	filename2-long.extension-long

There is a package called DOSCHK on GNU ftp sites (get the file
doschk-1.1.tar.gz) which will help you verify that all your filenames
won't make trouble under DOS.