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

[Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood]

Doesn't FAT32 use that annoying ~1 for long filenames? For example:
"A Text File With A Long Name.txt" == "ATEXTF~1.TXT"

Although you'd need to be careful to avoid collision with other files
with similar names.

However, this would break compatibility with DOS and Windows 3.1 (if
anyone still uses that!) and would only really be useful for DOS and
Win3.1 app compatibility.

Hmmmm...



On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 13:48, Mark IJbema wrote:
> 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
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