As an acceptable work-around, you could right-click the description file in Windows and choose "Update Windows file names", or it could be just a small Windows application included in the directory. And unless it is forbidden to read VFAT LFN in DOS, any new changes could even be detected and handled.
/Anders > Eric, what I meant is: see how many people writes to us telling that > the MS-DOS-style MENUing in CONFIG.SYS does not work in FreeDOS, so I > guess we would be flooded with messages like: "I wrote with LFNs to a > disk, and Windows no longer recognises the filenames, and has the > FILE4~1.TXT form instead". > > Aitor > > > 2009/4/9 Eric Auer: > >> I think a descript.ion file based driver to support long file names would > >> be a fine idea indeed :-). > On the down side, the driver will not read or write VFAT LFNs for you, so if > you want to let > Windows and DOS access the same drive, you would not share LFNs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
