In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug Barton writes:
:       But win95 didn't really fix it, it just covered it up. Filenames in
: Win9x are still 8.3, but the "OS" provides a translation layer that maps
: those 8.3 filenames to long ones. Also, are we sure that fdimage,
: running under DOS can handle longer names? 

But DOS will truncate it.  By that point the name has served its
purpose and it doesn't matter if it is truncated :-).

Warner


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