Alternate file name hash for winver win31?

[Andreas Mohr Usenet 08/01]

Dick Repasky <rrepasky at indiana.edu> wrote:
> Filenames that don't conform to the 8.3 file name scheme of dos 
> file systems are hashed by wine as expected on vfat file systems, 
> using the function DOSFS_Hash.  Yet, the rules for windows
> 3.1 were somewhat different.  File name requests that didn't
> conform to the 8.3 scheme were simply truncated to fit.
> Evidence of this exists in the execution of S-Plus for
> windows 3.1.  The program requests a file called "___nonfile" 
> and the operating system truncates the request to "___nonfi" 
> and stores it with that name.  

> Is there any possibility of implementing Windows 3.1
> behavior in wine?  
Hmm, I think we'd need to know where exactly your program does have a problem
with that.
It might be possible that this is indeed a problem in Wine that can be fixed,
but we'd need to know why.
Run
wine --debugmsg +relay,+text,+string,+file,+dosfs MyPrg.exe &>/tmp/wine.log
, gzip it and mail it.

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