From: RiverWind <riverwind@shellworld.net>


Greetings,

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
extention. I have read the help screens extensively, and I don't
seem to be able to come up with a solution. The line in my
autoexec.bat appears as follows. Might any of you have suggestions
as to how this line can be modified, or perhaps any other things I
might try?

LH DOSLFN /Z:C:\DOS71\CP437UNI.TBL

Any help would be most sincerely appreciated.

Bright Blessings,
RiverWind

Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me
and what I stand for.

My Website http://www.shellworld.net/~riverwind
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Hello RiverWind!

03 Jan 10 14:17, you wrote to Open Dos Discussion Group:

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
extention. I have read the help screens extensively, and I don't
seem to be able to come up with a solution. The line in my
autoexec.bat appears as follows. Might any of you have suggestions
as to how this line can be modified, or perhaps any other things I
might try?

LH DOSLFN /Z:C:\DOS71\CP437UNI.TBL

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.


Vince

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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe.daSilva@landisgyr.com>

Hi,

Don't know why you are specifying the code page stuff
to DOSLFN, I use DOSLFN version 0.32o with no switches
(or sometimes the /~- switch) and it works fine with
M$-DOS 7.10. Note however, only internal commands like
COPY, DIR, REN recognize the LFN support. Other stuff
like XCOPY doesn't (external applications may or may
not recognize the available LFN support, depending on
what assumptions they make).

So that's M$-DOS 7.10. IIRC, DR-DOS 7.02/7.03 will also
work with DOSLFN. PC-DOS 7.10 doesn't. Not sure about
other versions of DOS.

Joe.



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From: RiverWind [mailto:riverwind@shellworld.net]
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 6:18 AM
To: Open Dos Discussion Group
Subject: Long File-Name Recognition

Greetings,

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
extention. I have read the help screens extensively, and I don't
seem to be able to come up with a solution. The line in my
autoexec.bat appears as follows. Might any of you have suggestions
as to how this line can be modified, or perhaps any other things I
might try?

LH DOSLFN /Z:C:\DOS71\CP437UNI.TBL

Any help would be most sincerely appreciated.

Bright Blessings,
RiverWind

Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me
and what I stand for.

My Website http://www.shellworld.net/~riverwind
My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/→

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Replying to a message of RiverWind to All:

From: RiverWind <riverwind@shellworld.net>

Greetings,

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 extention. I have read the help screens
extensively, and I don't seem to be able to come up with a
solution.

Most likely because AFAIK there isn't one. The DOS file naming
convention (8.3) is a holdover from CP/M, and they probably got
it someplace else. DOS also won't handle NTFS partitions, or FTM
any format other than FAT or, maybe, FAT32. ISTR there may be
a DOS driver that allows one to read, but not write NTFS partitions,
but DOS won't deal with the long file names.

The line in my autoexec.bat appears as follows.
Might any of you have suggestions as to how this line can be
modified, or perhaps any other things I might try?

LH DOSLFN /Z:C:\DOS71\CP437UNI.TBL

Any help would be most sincerely appreciated.

I haven't dealt much with DOS for over a decade - when I switched
from DR-DOS 6 to OS/2. I have a box here with DR-DOS (Novell DOS)
7 on it, but I don't use it much (in fact not at all because it has hardware 'issues').

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# LH DOSLFN /Z:C:\DOS71\CP437UNI.TBL
#
# Any help would be most sincerely appreciated.
##[RW=>All]

Does running this from a command line (minus the 'LH') give you an error?
I.E.:

DOSLFN /Z:C:\DOS71\CP437UNI.TBL

Have you tried including the unicode table without the path name? Like:

LH DOSLFN /Z:CP437UNI.TBL

I have never used DOSLFN, but thought these might be worth a shot.

Mike

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