Jérôme Grimbert wrote: > We have two kind of filesystem: the floppy and the harddisk. > Maintaining floppy compatibility is essential.
Floppies don't need such long paths anyway. > If we could store the EXEC information on DOS format, things would be > simple, and I would push for the DOS format, not because it is DOS, but > because it is so wide spread. Just an unrelated note to the DOS long-filename-hack: They had to do this because a single file name was limited to only 8 characters. We have 36 characters to work with, which is much less of a burden. So I don't see the need for something similar. > BUT, the harddisk does not need to be exchanged with another system. > Therefore, we can do as we want on a harddisk partition. Quite right. > Correct. The filename is stored at the beginning of the file itself, in > the first sector given by the index. Actually that is only true for Microdrives. Not sure about Floppy, but definitely not QLWA drives. The header space is there but empty. > That why I always think that a full pathname (device included) can be > longer that 41 char: win1_+36 char = 41, but n1_dev1_+36 is already bigger! Because n is really a character device. The physical path that will get accesses by the server is still only 41 characters. Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
