Re: [MiNT] System call bindings

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

>>> *Fsfirst()* and *Fsnext()* may not necessarily return the standard 
>>> *DOS* 8 + 3 file name format.
>>
>> The Compendium is simply wrong here.
>
> For Mint in his state is wrong of course, I agree. Can someone could
> test on the old Multitos?

There's no difference between MultiTOS and MiNT in this area, because 
MiNT is MultiTOS' kernel.

> Moreover, file names returned from Fsfirts and Fsnext may be treated
> differently; MiNT domain process are expected to be able to deal with 
> file names that are not standard 8 character name + 3 character
> extension, all upper case, DOS file names.
> ...

Which means that filenames returned by Fsfirst()/Fsnext() in Pdomain(1) 
may be no longer 8+3, but for example 3+8, and your program has to 
handle this. However, as Frank already wrote, there's nothing about 
filenames longer than 14 characters.

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