Re: umsdos/uvfat

Gordon Chaffee (chaffee@CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Sun, 1 Feb 1998 21:55:36 -0800 (PST)

I'm not sure what the point of this discussion even is. When I
was working of uvfat (before a different version was released),
I just used vfat aliases (i.e. 8.3 names) as the way to do the
lookup. This allows both uvfat and umsdos to work in the same
directories. It was backward compatible to an extent: newly
created uvfat filename would cause a bit of a problem for old
umsdos distributions, but an updated umsdos distribution would
work with both the old and the new.

I believe the version of uvfat that was released had similar
features. I had a discussion with the author at the time of
its release, and it led me to believe he had done it the way I
felt was reasonably correct.

- Gordon