From: David Rosoff <drosoff@arc.unm.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:31:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: hacked version of PGP - win95 long filenames
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I suffer from the great misfortune of a dos computer, and despite my
anti-micro$oft efforts, I still am stuck, most of the time, with Windows
95. This OS assigns long filenames (the sensible kind, that is) to the
old-style eight-character and three-character separated by a dot. However,
they did it in such a way that old filenames still work. So if I have a 
file I want to encrypt, PGP will mess up this system.

oldname.txt -> oldname.asc

This is the normal way PGP would encrypt. However, f I have assigned the 
oldname.txt file a new file name under the win95 system, it will look
something like this.

"Old File" (oldfil~1.txt)

This conforms with the new scheme. If I PGP encrypt, this happens:

oldfil~1.txt -> oldfil~1.asc

Thus, the new filename is lost, both for the ciphered file, and for
the file once I decrypt. Is there a way (aside from not using long
filenames) such as a hacked version of PGP that has a workaround for
this problem? Also, is this an issue on the list of improvements for
future official versions of PGP?

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