• Long File-Name Recognitio

    From bob klahn@1:124/311 to VINCE COEN on Mon Jan 11 20:25:00 2010

    I have recently installed dos71 on a rebuilt machine, and I am not
    able to get dos to recognize long filenames. It still wants to use
    the eight character naming protocol and the three character

    ...

    The Dos specification has only supported 8.3 filenames ie
    FAT and not FAT32. The only way around this is installing
    Dos via Win 98 SE into a floppy which does so but by memory
    has a very limited of supplied utilities.

    It is possible that one or more of the free versions of Dos
    eg FreeDos does support this specification, however there
    are limits on file name and path sizing.

    Try Romdos.

    It comes up quickly if you google it.



    BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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  • From bob klahn@1:124/311 to MARK LEWIS on Fri Jan 8 03:34:00 2010
    It is possible that one or more of the free versions of Dos eg
    FreeDos does support this specification, however there are limits
    on file name and path sizing.

    not to mention that even with LFN at the DOS level, many
    DOS programs are still limited by the 8.3 convention...

    I tend to use 8.3 just in case I find myself running the program
    on a MS Dos or PC dos system. That and habit.


    BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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