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2003 Jun 09
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Preservation of short and long filenames in Windows 9x with Samba
...over a network. I think the reason why this works is
because the files are copied EXACTLY in the order they were created.
Thus if we have the case of two filenames where:
long filename : thisisalongfilename1.txt (in Windows)
short filename: THISIS~1.TXT (at the DOS command prompt)
long filename : thisisalongfilename2.txt (in Windows)
short filename: THISIS~2.TXT (at the DOS command prompt)
if the combination of thisisalongfilename1.txt/THISIS~1.TXT is copied
first it will have exactly the same name on the destination drive.
Likewise if the combination thisisalongfilename2.txt/THISIS~2.TXT is
copied first the f...