Dos unit on Unix

[Frank Heckenbach]

david at tcs01.demon.co.uk wrote:

> qq88n at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > Because MyFavoriteShot.jpg became MyFavori.jpg after
> > dos's FSplit.
> 
> If it was returning a DOS 8.3 filename, shouldn't you see
> something like MyFavo~1.jpg?

That's what would happen when using a Dos file system
(also under Linux when mounted as plain FAT instead of
VFAT or so ...). But that wasn't the problem. FSplit seems
to work right, just the results were truncated because
the strings (passed as var parameters for the results)
were too small.

Frank

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