OpenEuphoria

Re: Can't compile DOS program with long file name

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Apr 03, 2006
• 553 views

Vincent wrote:

> Igor & Juergen,
> 
> Open Watcom 1.5 will officially support full LFN on supported DOS versions.
> An extention to the core Watcom libraries are under development. I do not
> think
> LFN works on older DOS versions prior to 7.0 (Windows 95/98)?

Normally, DOS LFN are only available when IFSMgr (i.e. Windows 95+) is
running. Otherwise they only can be accessed by using special TSR
programs.

> I'm not certain
> how the development team is designing the libraries but do think it will use
> 8.3 truncated filenames if incompatible.
> 
> If RDS uses OW 1.5 then they should be able to extend their products for full
> LFN. But then again the future of MS-DOS compatability on Windows is uncertain
> and might not be worth the effort to implement.

At the moment I'm not even asking for full DOS LFN support, but only for
ec.exe being able to translate program files with long names. I think
the effort to implement this will be little, just compile ec.ex with
DJGPP -- or with Open Watcom 1.5, as I learned from your post.

> I think RDS would be better off investing their time on porting their products
> to the AMD64 platform and increasing the file size limits of Euphoria and EDS.

Especially increasing the file size limits of Euphoria and EDS is also
on my wish list.

However, I have a problem with a discussion like this:
"I would like RDS to invest their time on implementing feature A instead
of feature B.".
Normally it is almost unpredictable what RDS will implement and what not.
So what if RDS will _not_ implement the desired feature A? Also, there is
the possibility that feature A _and_ feature B will be implemented.

Regards,
   Juergen