From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Subject: Re: Move
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:35:57 GMT

 das9674@ucs.usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:

>>C:\Games\Amiga_Port_We_Pretend_We_Invented
>>
>>	... oh, sorry - that wouldn't FIT, would it???    8)
>
>Sure it would.   OS/2's HPFS allows for 255-char. filename, directories longer 

     But if it were a game (or anything else, for that matter) that ran under
DOS or Windows, it wouldn't work on an HPFS partition.  If you want long
filenames, you have to give up any chance of using non-OS2 apps on that
partition.  And we all know how few real OS/2 apps there are :-)


>than the one you cited. Without have to resort to underscores, I'd just
>use SPACES.  But then again, you Amigans would not KNOW about such 
>trivial niceties, would you???    8)

     Why not? Spaces are perfectly legal characters in Amiga filenames.
Personally, I usually replace them with underscores just to avoid having to
put quotes around whole file names, though.

>I COULD have cited a directory named "Falcon 3.0 which AMigans do not have"
>or one called D:\Games\Ultima Underworld  
>or one called D:\Games\Stunt Island - no Amigans apply.
>

     I could create a directory called "Under 8 meg multitasking" which would
be readable by every application I have, no matter what file system I happen
to be using on that particular device (unless, of course, it's an MS-DOS disk;
I wouldn't be able to use such a long file name to begin with).  Not to mention
that when I want to get rid of it, I can do so with a single command... not so
easy from a stock OS/2 or MS-DOS shell environment (granted it can be easily
done with File Manager or WPS).

>Geez, it sounds like Amigans have found the one last thing  about
>PCs that they can latch onto and bash.

     Nah, there are plenty of fun things to bash about PCs.

>Well, you Amigans are guilty, too, then.  Have you ever been told
>'don't touch that while <such and such> is active, the computer will
>crash if you do'??

     All the time on the PCs at work :-)

>OS/2, the OS we WERE talking about, doens't have any 640K barrier.  And
>what does it say for Amigas that MSDOS can run some better applications than
>an Amiga with NO 640K barrier.  Right, that there is the ol' Amiaa 
>'I might not have a hard drive or more than a meg, anyway' barrier.  Note:
>YOU sure don't point things like this out, ad nauseum.
>

     DOS windows still have a 640K barrier within OS/2.  Of course, you 
don't have to use DOS at all if you don't want to, so there goes a large
chunk of those "better applications".


     Side question: is it true that, depending on what display driver you're
running, DOS and WINOS2 sessions can limit or prohibit multitasking under OS/2?
I believe I remember reading that in one of the help files in OS/2 2.1...


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