[ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT

[Mark IJbema]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:40:55AM -0800, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
[ms patented storing long and short filenames at the same time]
> Then calculate short names dynamically at runtime, rather than storing
> them?

But how to do this? It isn't as easy as it looks, since each long
filename should give the same short filename all the time. It could be
done by using some hash, but then unique names aren't guaranteed.
Another alternative would be calculating the name based on the creation
date of the file, but then files get the creation date they're created
on the local fs, which isn't the case normally under windows.

Mark