Re: LYNX-DEV default editor for lynx_w32: Howto?

[Nelson Henry Eric]

>   Only if the file name is too long for dos or
>    whatever do you then issue the quotes.

Probably more of the "whatever" than anything else since it is more
of a problem than just being "too long".  Windows95 allows/recognizes
spaces within a file name and distinguishes between upper and lower
case letters, for example.  My stupid question is: where is this info
held, somewhere in the FAT?  I haven't had much time to "play around",
but putting linux on a DOS partition of a Windows95 machine was a real
eye-opener.  None of the stuff Windows95 led me to believe was on the
machine was really there, at least not in the form I expected.

Is the file name conversion routine proprietary?  Converting the name
to the DOS equivalent (which seems to me to be what is in the FAT and
what even Windows95 is actually using in the final call to read or write
a file) might be more robust than relying on quotes.  It's what I find
myself doing manually all the time these days as I carry files on floppy
from home to office and back (MS-DOS, OS/2, Un*x, WinDOZ - what a mess!)

__Henry
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> > From address@hidden Mon Oct 20 18:56:03 1997
> > X-Authentication-Warning: rainbow.nmt.edu: bsittler owned process doing -bs
> > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 17:05:37 -0600 (MDT)
> > From: "Benjamin C. W. Sittler" <address@hidden>
> > X-Sender: address@hidden
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV default editor for lynx_w32: Howto?
> > 
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Wayne Buttles wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> > > 
> > > > ac81 (lynx_386): echo shows an argument within a pair of doublequotes "
> > >   
> > >   (for the edit filename)
> > > 
> > > > Is it possible to remove " in DOS version ?
> > > 
> > > It can be.  The quotes are needed for running under win95 so that long
> > > filenames are preserved.
> > 
> > If possible, it would be nice to use only the short filenames as arguments
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