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Re: gzip converts stuff to 8.3 filenames
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: gzip converts stuff to 8.3 filenames
- From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <benny at crocodial dot de>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 12:51:20 +0200
- Organization: Crocodial Communications EntwicklungsGmbH
- References: <6rRbkDM4pfB@mike.franken.de>
Hi Michael,
> Hi Allan,
> >I'm fudging around with gzip and those nifty registry sendto commands,
> >and I zip a file off to gzip, sure enough emacs-lisp-manual.ps
> >becomes EMACS-~1.PS.gz
Michael Hirmke wrote:
> You don't have gzip from the Cygnus packages, do you ?
> Cygnus gzip does not mangle filenames.
No, but the Explorer shell does. Whenever the Explorer supplies file
name args to programs, like from the SendTo menu or in Drag-and-Drop
operations, it uses the short filenames. It does this, because there is
no easy way to check, if a program/batchfile/script supports long
filenames or not.
So if you write a SendTo handler for gzip or just put a gzip link into
the SendTo folder, gzip will get the short filename as its arg.
so long, benny
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Benjamin Riefenstahl (benny@crocodial.de)
Crocodial Communications EntwicklungsGmbH
Ruhrstraße 61, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
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