Subj : Re: Disable creation of softlinks
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Deon George
Date : Sun Mar 17 2019 06:13 am

Hey Andrew,

On 16 Mar 2019, Andrew Leary said the following...
 AL> There isn't a setting to prevent the creation of symlinks.  MBSE creates 
 AL> symlinks to ensure that every file has both an 8.3 DOS compatible
 AL> filename and the "real" full filename.

OK, I think there are opportunities for the TIC processing to be improved.
This is something I wanted to look at for a long time, but I just cant seem
to find the time or headspace to look into it.

Here is an example of what I see:
-rw-r--r-- 1 mbse bbs 1063026 Dec  2 21:55 NULL003L32.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 mbse bbs 1027027 Dec  2 21:55 NULL003RPI.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 mbse bbs  780512 Dec  2 21:55 NULL003W32.Z
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Dec  7 20:29 null003l32.zip -> NULL003L32.Z
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Dec  7 20:29 null003rpi.zip -> NULL003RPI.Z
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Dec  7 20:29 null003w32.zip -> NULL003W32.Z

and
-rw-r--r-- 1 mbse bbs  238387 Oct  2 21:13 TDFSTUDIO110
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Nov  8 21:39 tdfstudio110_l32.zip ->
TDFSTUDIO110
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Nov  8 21:39 tdfstudio110_rpi.zip ->
TDFSTUDIO110

In the second output, you'll see that I received something inbound, it was
converted to uppercase and truncated to 12 chars (the DOS format?) and then
symlinked to the unix format (name untouched). In the process, one of these
links is wrong.

I would like to see incoming files be tossed and stored "as received"
(since MBSE is running on Linux - converted to lowercase if necessary), and
the symlink be created to support DOS conventions (if it cannot be disabled).
Additionally, the DOS link should be 8.3 chars and if there is no extension,
it should just be 8 chars (and all uppercase). (The first output above is
wrong for DOS).

I have a mess of a badtic dir and file areas because MBSE doesnt handle large
filenames well - and I know you've just released an update (which I'm yet to
look at) - I'm not sure if it will help the issue I'm seeing.

....deon

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