Re: DOSEMU/DOSBOX question

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

On Jan 20, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Paul Lagasse wrote:
>  Longer filenames are truncated - the first five characters are the
> same, then there's a tilde, and then there are two characters that
> seem to bear no relationship to the filename.
>
> Thus,
>
> .dosemurc becomes DOSEM~HU
> .dosemurc~ becomes DOSEM~8Z
> .recently-used.xbel becomes RECEN~YO.XBE
>
> Linux files and directories without extensions show three underscores
> PROFI~GU._ _ _ is ".profile" (I've added spaces to highlight the
> underscores as separate characters.)
> If I type "ca profi~gu._ _ _" on the command line and hit enter, I
> can open the file. I have to include the tilde and three
> underscores to call the file. The way Dosemu and XyWrite are set
> up, these files are in "d:\" in Xy4/Dosemu, which is actually "/
> home/pgl/" in Linux.
I noticed a similar "encoding" of filenames when, while using Virtual
PC on my mac, I try and access files on my OS X hard drive, from XY. 
I think it must be something with trying to encode long filenames to
be compatible with the DOS 8.3 scheme.
Until XY is ever open sourced, or something else happens, I think
with any DOS app you'll have to be cautious when you try and access
files on other operating systems.


Russ