From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Short file names Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:29:40 -0500 Organization: Nortel Networks Lines: 33 Message-ID: <38BACCA4.595947FD@americasm01.nt.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: wmerh0tk.ca.nortel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/785) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 (\/)