RE: [MiNT] Odd problem with minix

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Odd Skancke
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 6:22 PM
> To: Martin Nightowl Byttebier
> Cc: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Odd problem with minix
> ...
>  The problem, at least with TextView!!, is that it doesn't run in the
> "MiNT domain". It runs in TOS domain, which means that only the first 8+3
> characters in filenames are evaulated by GEMDOS. This leads to the effect
> that when several filenames have identical names in the first 8+3
> characters, only the file that was first created in that directory will be
> used.
>
>  I was certain I had fixed this in the latest StringServer package
> release and had to test.. but its not. A future release ( if any ) will
> fix this. The present versions are fixed, so this is no problems for me :)

As far as I know, being or not being in the MiNT domain does not really
affect how MiNT handles long file names for you. It should be possible to do
an Fopen() on the second of the two long file names and it should work.

Historically, MiNT used to check the current domain to decide how to return
filenames from Fsfirst/Fsnext, but AFAIK I know, this has been removed long
ago (when Dopendir/readdir/closedir were introduced).