> On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> > So then is is an almost-POSIX filesystem. Since the Win95 filname
> > restrictions are reasonable, it is best to just use them as is.
> They are not reasonable, because some nice POSIX program might open
> two temp-files like /tmp/tmpaabbcc and /tmp/tmpaabbcC. So you may have a
> Win95 filesystem, but it will not do as a root filesystem.
My original idea was something like: UMSDOS currently does two
things: First it implements UNIX file attributes that MSDOS/FAT does
not have by maintaining EMD files. Secondly it maps long names that
DOS/FAT can't handle to "mostly reasonable" substitutes.
With VFAT we would have a nicer mapping for the second point.
Admittedly at the first instance I forgot the upper- and lowercasing
problem and I thought we wouldn't have to remap file names at all.
Ulrich