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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 09:52 AM EST |
Doubt it. Under vfat you still can't have more than 1 file of the same name in
any directory.
Besides, the *nix way of mapping user-viewed filenames to i-nodes would be much
closer to vfat, except that the i-nodes are hidden from the user (in much the
same way that Lisa's internal name was) unlike the short vfat names. AFICT, the
vfat long name method is to use multiple short-name directory entries to hold
the characters of the long name, but only using the 11 characters for the
filename of each entry (meaning lots of such entries are needed for very long
names), linking them somehow to the short name is a way that enables the
directory to be read by non-vfat enabled system: writing under such systems
destroys the short<->long links.
The Lisa system needs a way to read the user names and display them for
selection - it needs a GUI (style) of necessity. vfat can be used from command
line, or from, a box you can type into; if there are two files which can match
the *exact* name typed in, how can the system distinguish which you meant
(without further asking, unlike the click-to-select method which will leave the
problem up to you to figure out which is which in the first place).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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