1. Re: want to test if windows long filename supported,
- Posted by Al Taylor <alt at HARE.NET.AU> Jan 23, 1998
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:57:28 -0800, J-Man Th' Shaman [DiS] wrote: >I'm not sure on long filenames in Win95, but 4dos filename descriptions >(which I use for long filenames under Win3.1) uses a hidden reference Thanks for replying. I was thinking of doing that to view long filenames when I boot with DOS and don't load win.com. I think a DOS7+ should support long filenames without Windows loaded. EDIT.COM can do it, not dir. I think it's a way to force people to use Windows more. >file by the name of "descript.ion" in the directory. It it plaintext >and fairly easy to parser. Dunno if Win95 uses the same scheme. "descript.ion" is default and can be changed. There's programs that don't recognise the change. For Windows95 the long filenames are used in the descriptions, making these descriptions disappear when long filenames are disabled, or Windows isn't loaded. I still use SHEZ, and it doesn't seem to recognise some short filename descriptions. I'm not sure why, but I'll do some experiments and see what's going on. These 4DOS/etc 'standard' (and changeable) description files are more difficult to cope with than I first thought. I created some Euphoria code primarily to cope with the lack of long-filename description aware software. If I want something done and there's no programs to do it, I can try and do it myself. It would be much easier if 4dos had an option to make the description the same for short and long filenames, so the descriptions wouldn't seem to disappear when changing from and to, either short or long filenames. Maybe Windows98 will have long filenames in plain old DOS without Windows so this problem will be solved completely! Al.