>> I'd just like to know why long file names are so widely used?
>Most filesystems except FAT supports it.
VFAT, FAT32 (actually using VFAT), HPFS, NTFS etx2, yeah, only FAT has a
small limitation, the MAC has 32 or something like that for the names.
VFAT can't have 254 chars in a file name, the directory length can only be 254
But *all* computer systems can read FAT, so it's the most usefull for the
information exchange. Naming conversions should therefor always be 8.3 in
size.
>>I mean, eight characters are enough to point it out and makes it
compatible with
>>most machines then.
>I got a file sent to me from a Windows95-fan called (in translation)
"postcard_01.jpg". >It is as descriptive as "201.jpg". The image did not
look like a postcard at all.
Yeah, 8 is enough for anyone, but the thing that botherd me the most was
people that named files like file.my1 file.my2 or something equaly stupid.
Now they don't do that anymore, but the LFN file names are random so they
are not that good looking if you got enough starting with the same (all my
Beatles CDs was put as MP3 on one CD, and I just can see they are Beatles
from the starting BE, the rest is a random hexadecimal number.)
>I changed all my *.html to *.htm when I moved my pages, and keep all
filenames to 8.3 >so that there will be no problems for anyone.
ZIP files are really bothering me, restarting the PC just to unpack a file
is really anoying.
Often the LFN file names are *less* describtive than the normal since
people don't think before they save the file(s).
>
>> And the dumbest is "Program Files".
>Not dumb at all. It makes many US-Windowsprograms unusable in Swedish
Windows, which >has "program" instead of "progra~1".
Any *true* Windows 95 program should check the registry to see if Program
or "Program Files" should be used (or whatever there can be), a interesting
side effect of the Swedish translation seems to be that the directory has
gotten a "R" as attrib.
"Eight characthers should be enough for anyone!"
//Bernie
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