Re: [MiNT] MiNTlib - new functions

["Julian F. Reschke" <fjr010@email.mot.com>]

Petr Stehlik wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:14:42 +0100, Michael Schwingen wrote:
> 
> MS>> You know, writting the file name as it is (say "HELLO WORLD") causes
> MS>> very bad things to your directory structure, that´s clear. Fixing it in
> MS>
> MS>No, that´s not clear. It may just be difficult to delete them, but I think
> MS>TOS should handle that fine internally.
> 
> Maybe yes, but I have got a bugreport that said "PARCP destroys my disks
> and I have to format them". It was because the user didn´t know how to
> get rid of that filenames so he had to use format. Desktop nor Thing can
> delete it. _Maybe_ that Fdelete("HELLO WORLD") would delete it, but if
> all desktops list just "HELLO" it´s hard to guess how the filename
> continues in the directory entry, you know.
> 
> MS>Creating ´this is a long name´ under TOS should not cause trouble
> 
> Creating does not cause trouble, but accessing, renaming and deleting of
> this file (listed as "this") will cause serious troubles (for users
> without disk editors at least).

I think before we start messing around with MiNT lib or TSRs, we 
really have to fully understand what the problem is.

Regards, jr