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No, the problem is when files *clash* when reduced to 8.3 filenames. Otherwise, you can use longer names, but the fs won't store them. Just like Windows is case insensitive, FAT is lfn-insensitive. It simply ignores characters beyond the 8.3 limits. Under Win95, however the full long file names are preserved. > This seems reasonable, although '-' is more standard for GDB source files > than '_', and I would install the patch that way. Just out of curiosity, > why isn't it a problem that the generated filenames are longer than 8 chars?