RE: VFAT.XFS

[Sven Karlsson <sven@it.lth.se>]

> I'm not very technical, but I was under the impression that the long
> filenames in win95 were just standard DOS filenames, but when win95
> encounters a ~1 it goes to a simple lookup table to get the long name. I
> have heard rumours that fat32 does more than that, but I can't imagine that
> Microsoft have completely rewritten the filesystem structure and lost the
> compatibility with DOS that they've kept for 15-odd years...

Each "VFAT" file has two names one long and one short(dos) the short one ends
with ~xx where xx is a number. The long name is contained in illegal dir slots.
This system IS compatible with dos but dos sometimes trashes the long name
leaving only the dos name..

Regards
 Sven