Method and system for accessing a file using file names having d

Details Method and system for accessing a file using file names having d Method and system for accessing a file using file names having d

1992-07-06

1998-04-28

Lintz, Paul R.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707 3, G06F 1730

Patent

active

057459029

ABSTRACT:
A multiple file name referencing system stores multiple file names in a file. These multiple file names include an operating system formatted file name and an application formatted file name. When an operating system formatted file name is created or renamed, the multiple file name referencing system automatically generates an application formatted file name having a potentially different format from, but preserving the extension of, the operating system formatted name. The multiple file name referencing system similarly generates an operating system formatted name upon creation or renaming of an application formatted name. A B-tree is provided which contains an operating system entry for the operating system formatted name and an application entry for the application formatted name, each entry containing the address of the same file to which both names refer. The multiple file name referencing system converts the operating system formatted file name to the application formatted file name by accessing the B-tree with reference to the operating system entry, and vice versa. As a result, either file name can be used to directly reference the file without requiring additional file name translation.

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