Wrong short filenames instead of long ones

[Fabian Cenedese]

Hi

I'm trying to find a file copy tool which works on windows as well as wine.
I tried several and this looked promising:

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/fileutil/cc108dos.zip

On Windows it copied all files without problems and kept the long filenames
even if the name implies that it's DOS-only, but it worked fine on W2K.
But on wine the long names where all shortened to something like
CINO~E2H.CPP. So it doesn't look like normal DOS short names ...~1.cpp
but it's not the long name either. Can anybody try this out?

My wine (actual cvs) config is set to windows version nt40.

Thanks

bye  Fabi

[Ove Kaaven]

fre, 06.02.2004 kl. 13.16 skrev Fabian Cenedese:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to find a file copy tool which works on windows as well as wine.
> I tried several and this looked promising:
>
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/fileutil/cc108dos.zip
>
> On Windows it copied all files without problems and kept the long filenames
> even if the name implies that it's DOS-only, but it worked fine on W2K.
> But on wine the long names where all shortened to something like
> CINO~E2H.CPP. So it doesn't look like normal DOS short names ...~1.cpp
> but it's not the long name either. Can anybody try this out?

It's the short names Wine makes when there is no DOS short name (i.e.
when you're not on a VFAT partition).
> My wine (actual cvs) config is set to windows version nt40.

Try win95. Wine currently only emulates the DOS long file name API on
win9x, since it did not exist on nt4.

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> Try win95. Wine currently only emulates the DOS long file name API on
> win9x, since it did not exist on nt4.

That makes no sense: we get short names on a system (nt4) that
fundamentally had long names. Shoudn't we get long names by
default in that case?

[Ove Kaaven]

fre, 06.02.2004 kl. 15.46 skrev Dimitrie O. Paun:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > Try win95. Wine currently only emulates the DOS long file name API on
> > win9x, since it did not exist on nt4.
>
> That makes no sense: we get short names on a system (nt4) that
> fundamentally had long names. Shoudn't we get long names by
> default in that case?

No, you couldn't get long file names in DOS programs under NT4. Try to
run command.com (a DOS app) instead of cmd.exe (a Win32 console app)
under NT4 sometime. NT4 had generally poor DOS support, mostly because
its kernel was not DOS; Win95 had much better DOS support because of its
DOS-based kernel, and that kernel provided long file name services to
DOS programs running under it (on a VFAT partition).

Now it's possible that 2000 and XP added Win95-compatible long file name
services for DOS programs, in which case the version check in Wine for
the LFN DOS API could be updated. The version check is anyway (probably)
mostly there to prevent winver=win311 from enabling the LFN API.