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Bluechip <csbluechip_at_gmail.com> Date: 2005-12-05  At 05:00
05/12/2005, you wrote: >Neon John wrote: >>I'd kill for symbolic
links too, but can they be mapped back to the >>FAT file system?
>No, that was just for the die-hard Unix/Linux fans out there
;o) Only way >we'd get true symlinks is if Rockbox supported
ext2/ext3 formatted file >systems. And those wouldn't show up on
Windows... >>Isn't that kinda how Win98 handled long file names?
>Yeah, didn't they have some funky hidden system file in every
folder that >mapped "long filename.txt" to LONGFI~1.TXT or
something? I'm not sure >that'd be very efficient given the
RAM/CPU that Rockbox has to keep into  LFN is far more ugly than
that, a real botch-on-a-botch. Each 11 characters of e filename
has a _entire_ hidden directory entry!  >I'll tinker with the
LNK files, but if I can't get around the filename >situation
then I'm not sure