Re: XP -- WOW! Partial 32bit name support?

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Carl Distefano wrote:

> It's not Dave or Xy4. It's the NT file system (NTFS), which
> generates a unique 8.3 filename to make files with long filenames
> (LFNs) accessible to DOS and 16-bit Windows apps. In your example,
> "index.html" and "index~1.htm" are two names for the same file. The
> file system keeps track of them "transparently".

Interesting. My NT partitions are still FAT-16 (because I opted not to
mess with Steiner's abandoned Beta-ware for making NTFS partitions
accessible to OS/2), and yet these same results apparently obtain.

Jordan