Re: DOSEMU/DOSBOX question

[cld@xxxxxxxx]

The point is, understanding the algorithm that gets you from longfilename (LFN) to 8.3 doesn't help you go in the other direction. If you have two files, "short people.txt" and "short circuits.txt", that are mangled, respectively, to SHORT-AB.TXT and SHORT-CD.TXT, there is no way to tell, simply by inspecting the 8.3 filenames, which one refers to which LFN. For that you need additional data, which the algorithm alone doesn't provide.

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Harry Binswanger 
>
>
> >Wally, thanks very much for the explanation of the Dosemu truncation
> >style. If only understanding it would allow me to divine which file was which.
>
> There *has* to be an algorithm being used to make the 8.3 filename. Why not
> induce it from some "Mill's Methods" experiments: see what it makes out of
> systematically varied long filenames. E.g.,
>
> LongfilenameA
> LongfilenameB
> LongfilenameC
>
> Longfile.nameA
> Longfile.nameB
>
> and any other variations you can think off.
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx
>