On Fri, 23 Feb 1996, VaX#n8 wrote:

> Finally, anyone got suggestions on how to deal with weird filename
> conventions w/o manual intervention?  I'm thinking of writing a perl filename
> mangler that has knowledge of the 8.3 limit and will try and smush it in...
> 
> I'm also thinking of maintaining an "export filename xlation list"...

Look at the source code for Samba and use the scheme that they use.
It's reverseable and seems to be compatible with Windows 95.

cjs

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