Re: Desktop Icons

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

> The problem is the MS-DOS FST not being able to deal with
> Windows 95 (and Windows 98) long file names.  Whenever
> this feature is used on ANY file on the disk, the disk will
> become invisible to the MS-DOS FST (or rather invisible to
> the Finder for purposes of mounting an icon when it polls
> the MS-DOS FST).  Even if you later delete all the files with
> long file names, it will NOT fix the disappearing icon problem.

Yes, but this is only true if the MS-DOS disk has no volume label. If it
was labelled before any long file names were put on it, the FST would be
able to use it. Windows stores it's long file names in fake volume label
entries, so if it wasn't labelled, then the volume label would be part of
a long file name. That is what confuses the FST (and, possibly, you :) .

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