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    SubjectRe: Your backup is unsafe!
    On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Khimenko Victor wrote:

    > In <aa06777206b9fa39@home-box.demon.co.uk> Robert de Bath (rd103978@home-box.demon.co.uk) wrote:
    > > On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
    > > Apperently the VFAT needs some more cleaning, I imagine when perfect the
    > > short names will have no effect what so ever if the filesystem is mounted
    > > as a VFAT partiton, the only way you'll be able to do anything with them
    > > is with the SAMBA ioctls.
    >
    > You CAN NOT do this. Windows9X will be VERY upset if there are will be two
    > directories: one -- PROGRA~1 with LFN "Program files" and other -- some
    > other short name (not relevant) with LFN "PROGRA~1". And if short names are
    > hidded you can create such mess with just `mkdir PROGRA~1'...

    Snigger, explorer does get pretty confused doesn't it ?
    It looks like the LFN file selector can't decide if it's LFN or SFN.
    Anything that's 16bit is fine though.
    It gets even better when one of the is a file and the other a directory
    "The folder was moved or removed" :-)

    I suppose if somebody does that we've got a choice between Windows getting
    confused in this way or confusing windows by changing the short name of the
    other file/directory. Well, scandisk doesn't think that the name collision
    is a problem so it must be a Windows bug in explorer :-)

    --
    Rob. (Robert de Bath <http://poboxes.com/rdebath>)
    <rdebath @ poboxes.com> <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>


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