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by netsharc 1386 days ago
Edit: I guess my first look is wrong, on second look, it appears it needs their own filesystem driver. If the hack as I wrote would've worked, it would've been very clever, and dangerous...

> de facto file naming convention

From a first look, like it's using Microsoft's own hack of long file names[1] to create file entries that look like they belong to 1 file. A file that has a long file name (more than the 8+3 character limit) is actually several file entries, but they're empty files. Seems like the tool is creating non-empty files instead, that Windows is chaining together as one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_the_FAT_file_system#...