Sigh. What's really desirable is to fix VFAT, but that's out of the
question. :-( Failing that, using Wine to manipulate files on a mounted
VFAT partition that is also used by WinXX (via multiple boot) means seeing
and dealing with shortnames in a WinXX-compatible fashion --- Wine has
little choice, other than declaring that it can't be used to access a real
WinXX partition, but to grot around getting (and creating) shortnames.
Yes, it sucks. So does VFAT. (I wouldn't mind Microsoft quite so much if
they had a clue.)
| AFAIK, the only other program which uses access to the short names is
| Samba. (a) Why? (b) Is there some other approach which Samba can use?
+--->8
Same reason. I suspect both the Samba and the Wine developers would be very
happy if someone replaced VFAT with something sensible overnight on all
systems using VFAT... but it won't happen.
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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