Long filename (LFN) support is Microsoft's backward-compatible extension of the 8.3 filename (short filename) naming scheme used in DOS. Long filenames...
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A filename or file name is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file in a file system. Different file systems impose different restrictions on filename...
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An 8.3 filename (also called a short filename or SFN) is one that obeys the filename convention used by old versions of DOS and versions of Microsoft...
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File Allocation Table (redirect from FAT long filename)
These standards cover FAT12 and FAT16 with only short 8.3 filename support; long filenames with VFAT were partially patented. While FAT12 is used on floppy...
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A filename extension, file name extension or file extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file (for example, .txt, .docx, .md). The extension indicates...
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Design of the FAT file system (redirect from VFAT long filename)
example, a filename like "File with very long filename.ext" would be formatted like this: A checksum also allows verification of whether a long file name...
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both the GNU and BSD variants devised different methods of storing long filenames. Although the common format does not suffer from the year 2038 problem...
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UVFAT, an extension of UMSDOS to use the Windows data structures for long filenames instead of its own, was discontinued before release. They should work...
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EncFS (section No support for very long filenames)
Due to encryption, the filenames for encrypted files produced by EncFS are longer than the original filenames. Therefore, filenames whose length is close...
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the output of the command CD when called without arguments. While a long filename can be returned under CMD.EXE depending on the current directory, the...
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