Consequences of refusing to mangle names

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone tried this or does anyone have any opinions on what would 
> happen if we refuse to provide mangled names in the responses to a 
> find-first or find-next?
> 
> It seems that if we set the Short File Name Len to 0 in responses, that 
> might work.
> 
> I wonder which apps will break in that case?
> 
> The reason for wanting to do this is performance related :-)

Can't you do the same thing on NTFS when you tell it not to generate 8.3 
filenames?  You just can't run any DOS/16-bit apps.



jerry
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