Re: [MiNT] MiNTlib - new functions

[Michael Schwingen <rincewind@tubul.dascon.de>]

On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 10:14:00PM +0200, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> I have suggested to check the destination filesystem type and if it´s
> TOS FAT fs I wanted to let the filename convert so it wouldn´t write
> spaces and other dangerous characters to disk. Please note it would
> check and convert the filename only if the filesystem couldn´t handle
> that!

OK - I did not get that. In that case, I guess it would be OK.

> You know, writting the file name as it is (say "HELLO WORLD") causes
> very bad things to your directory structure, that´s clear. Fixing it in

No, that's not clear. It may just be difficult to delete them, but I think
TOS should handle that fine internally.

Creating 'this is a long name' under TOS should not cause trouble - however,
trying to create 'archive.tar.gz' might fail, and so I guess it would indeed
be a good idea to turn that into a valid name, if it only happens on 8+3
filesystems.

cu
Michael
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