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  • Subject: Re: Adding text to an IFS file
  • From: Richard Baird <rbbaird@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 08:58:25 -0500
  • Organization: Premium Systems, Inc.

Walden Leverich wrote:
> 
> I haven't tried it, but shouldn't the ifs handle long names natively? Are
> you saying that it doesn't?
 
no, I was "thinking out loud" (thinking on screen).

I checked, the IFS does handle long file names.  The reason I brought it
up, wasn't that the idea behind long file names in the first place? so
you wouldn't need text? (at least according to m$)
 
> <snip>
> >
> >here's a thought, does the ifs handle long file names the same way
> >windoz does? ie. puting an ~001 on it?  Maybe the long file name should
> >go in the "plain text"...
> >
> >just wondering aloud,
> >
> >rick
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