Hi Jim,
my argument was not that search engines should help us to advertise specific apps. My point is that it should be possible to find anything on ibiblio. If I google freedos kernel 2042 i386 and google returns a HTML of the LSM which in turn points me to 5fc559f6.zip this would still help me to find the file. But if there is any risk that I end up in a web directory full of such names for files or directories, I will feel lost and disappointed. The point about the descript.ion files was about the question which file names you could give the package zip files AFTER download. I think you have no chances to make all ibiblio contents 8.3 named and still let visitors know what is what. But my point is that it is not even USEFUL to limit yourself in that way. It would be like saying microsoft.com must be micsoft.com because microsoft is more than 8 characters. So AFTER download, a simple choice would be to give the zip the same name as the binary. For example the SLOWDOWN.COM can be in SLOWDOWN.ZIP which makes it very easy to know what I have in the SLOWDOWN.ZIP which I have downloaded from SLOWDOWN-3.10.ZIP on for example ibiblio. Calling the file SLOW310X.ZIP on ibiblio would just be a sadistic way of hiding important metadata called "name of what we are offering" from our visitors ;-) However, for those who say "but when I call the file slowdown.zip after download, how will I remember the version number?" for THOSE I suggest to use either descript.ion files, with suitable enhanced DIR tools or just do what Windows has done 20 years ago: Load those Long File Name LFN drivers and stop worrying about cramped short names. Even in simple DOS :-) Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
