Re: [MiNT] fstat long filename on TOS partition

[Jim DeClercq <jimd@panix.com>]

One vote for 5+3.3 shortened file names. That is the first five 
characters and the last three characters, and a three-character 
extension. This, I think, has a better chance of making a 
recognizeable shortened file name out of a long file name.

Jim


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Frederic Fouche wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Having a little problem here:
>
> i have a program that will write long filenames. I expected 
> that if it wrote them to my C partition, (TOS FAT 16), it will 
> shorten the filename. The program (not mine) does some fstat, 
> could that create problems with standard TOS partition?
>
> As soon as I switch the C partition to VFAT, or use ext2fs 
> partition it all works fine.
>
> What should be the behavior when trying to write long filenames 
> to a standard TOS partition? what should i do? Thank you