Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:49:22 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Current Directory Switches to Short Format on NT
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >Basically Windows doesn't try to make any difference between short
> >and long file nanes as both are perfectly legal.
> 
> Therefore, it's a bug in the database that stores the filenames.
> A database designed to run under Windows should always convert
> filenames to LFN or always convert filenames to SFN.

Yes, definitely.

The 8+3 aliases are just like hard links on Unix: they are alternative
file names which point to the same data on disk.  Windows programs can
be presented with a 8+3 alias, and it should DTRT for that case.