William Chops Westfield wrote:
> On Friday, Dec 5, 2003, at 21:07 US/Pacific, michael brown wrote:
>
>> Doesn't anyone else remember that M$ didn't even invent the LFN hack
>> for
>> windows.  It was a seperate, add-on product to windows 3.x sold by a
>> third party.  Then like all good ideas from small competitors, it was
>> assimilated by the M$ "innovators".
>>
> I don't think I ever knew that.  Did they buy up the company, or just
> steal the idea?

I don't think M$ exactly copied the technique since they had the luxury
of just including the long names in the actual directory by creating
VFAT.  They just made it work the exact same way in apearance and
embedded it directly into win95, effectively ending the life of the
company producing the product for win3.x.  IIRC, the original LFN stuff
used a hidden file within each "folder" to hold the long names.

michael brown

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