Re: Filename change to fit the "only one dot" limitation on DOS

DJ Delorie
1999-03-14T15:25:00Z

No, the problem is when files *clash* when reduced to 8.3 filenames.
Otherwise, you can use longer names, but the fs won't store them.
Just like Windows is case insensitive, FAT is lfn-insensitive. It
simply ignores characters beyond the 8.3 limits.

Under Win95, however the full long file names are preserved.

> This seems reasonable, although '-' is more standard for GDB source files
> than '_', and I would install the patch that way. Just out of curiosity,
> why isn't it a problem that the generated filenames are longer than 8 chars?