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[jbrown105 at jbrown.mylinuxbox.org: Re: DOS LFN support]

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Oct 26, 2002
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----- Forwarded message from "Jim C. Brown" <jbrown105 at jbrown.mylinuxbox.org>
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From: "Jim C. Brown" <jbrown105 at jbrown.mylinuxbox.org>
Subject: Re: DOS LFN support

On  0, Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > If you can create a .e file with full support for long filenames,
> > and if people can confirm that it works with all flavors of DOS,
> > I can move the code into the interpreter.
> <snip>
> 
> I'd be glad if it could be done this way, and I will do my best to
> create a .e file with full support for long filenames as soon as
> possible. I'll also add a draft of a report programm, that writes
> the OS and the results of some tests to a plain text file, that people
> can send to you by e-mail.
> 
> I myself have the possibility to test on
> - plain MS-DOS 6.22            (no LFN)
> - plain MS-DOS 7.1             (no LFN)
> - MS-DOS 7.1 & Win 98/1st ed.     (LFN)
> - MS-DOS  ?  & Win 2000           (LFN)
> 
> Regards,
>    Juergen
> 

There is a TSR program avaliable for DOS 4 and above which gives support for
LFN. I'm not sure if I still have the program on my disk, if I can find it
(locally or on the net again) I'll send it to Juergen so he can test that out
as well to see if it works (the TSR gives Win95 LFN under olders versions of
MS-DOS).

jbrown

P.S. I got rid of most of my DOS stuff after I became a Linux freak :),
I'll try to help out in this expetiture tho (hey, without a Disk Operating
System, where would we be? :)


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