Hi, Could this be usefull to you. Burks is a great site. Can even be bought in total on cdrom although this might stop soon. I missed the first parts of your post but hope I'm not repeating things.
http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/software/misc/index.htm The page calls it lfnble10.zip A utility which enables old Windows 3.1 programs running on Windows to use long filenames. It's an 88K zip. Regards Steve Jarvis At 09:24 17/12/2004 -0500, you wrote: >> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:01:55 -0800 (PST) >> From: Gregg Eshelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The file I'm tyring to track down is viewlfn.zip and >> was uploaded to Simtel in 1996 by View Software Inc. >> >> It's the last version of their "Long Filenames for >> Windows 95 and Windows 3.1". It's the only software >> ever made that gives 100% compatable access to the >> Win95 VFAT long filename system to Windows 3.1x and >> 16bit apps running on Windows 95. > >Gregg, I know you've been looking for that program for some time. >Hope you are yet able to find it without paying full retail for just >a disk (Double Bleah). > >I've been doing some searching myself for viewlfn.zip for you after >having read the post on Google Groups, but with no success. I've >thrown about every file search tool I know of at it. To save you some >time (and for future reference in file searching), I'll at least tell >you where I've looked: > > >Search Engines >============== > >http://www.google.com >http://www.dogpile.com >http://www.filesearching.com/advanced >http://www.filemirrors.com >http://www.freewareweb.com/ftpsearch.shtml >http://ftpsearch.elmundo.es:8000/ftpsearch >http://ftp.veoda.com >http://search.starware.com > >Other Repositories >================== >ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl (last known mirror of the older > SimTel.Coast.Net collection) >http://www.jumbo.com >http://garbo.uwasa.fi > >There's one site I haven't exhausted and you may want to check out: >http://www.ftpsearchengines.com >It has links to a number of file search engines (some of which are >listed above as ones I tried) > >One of the engines there that I haven't tried is an Archieplex, which >is a WWW front end to the older Archie file search engines. Many >(hopefully not all) of the Archie servers no longer exist, so be >prepared to get a bunch of "server not found" errors. You might also >want to try Googling "Archieplex" to try from another one. Every now >and then they can be good for finding an old file not found anywhere >else. > >I suspect that the file may be out there in some cobweb-ridden part >of the Internet, possibly on an abandoned simtel.net mirror (or a >one-time copy) that's no longer part of the mirror network and thus >the file was never deleted. Or you could nose around at some of the >present and past mirrors of the simtel.net collection to see if a >copy's there. > >You might want to try contacting a human at Simtel.Net and ask 1) >when viewlfn.zip was removed from the repository and 2) if by chance >they archive files that have been removed from the repository. If the >latter turns out to be true and you beg, plead and grovel nicely >enough :), they might dig it out for you. With the former >information, you could look for copies of the Walnut Creek >CD-ROM Simtel collection prior to that date (I tried the website >address of http://www.cdrom.com without success in connecting--it >appears that they were bought out by Digital River, but their main >website has no links to an online store, so I can only suggest you >email them from the contact link at http://www.digitalriver.com and >see what happened to that part of their operation). > >Wish I could have turned up something for you! Plus I'd kinda like to >have a copy as well. > >-- >I'm a MUGWump: My "MUG" is on the Mac side of the fence (since mid-2002), and >my "Wump" is on the PC side (since 1989). I've been on the trailing edge of >computer technology since 1987 and love it! 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