On 11/7/2022 5:07 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
Hi listers:
I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in
FreeDOS (or any real DOS).
I notice that the lfn option is rem’d out in the fdauto.bat file by
default, so it would appear that, while support seems to be there, the
On 11/5/2022 10:34 PM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
Thanks, Ralf:
I much rather think that the confusion is that (Free)DOS is not
plug, so if you plug in the USB stick after FreeDOS is booted
up, it will very likely (though depending on the BIOS of the machine)
not recognize that there is a
Hi Joseph,
> I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in FreeDOS
> (or any real DOS).
lfnwhat? :-D
Cheers,
Robert
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Am 07.11.22 um 14:07 schrieb Joseph Norton:
Hi listers:
I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in FreeDOS (or any
real DOS).
Before you read on: FreeDOS 1.1 was the last version I actually used...
(Didn't find the time...)
For FreeDOS I think that LFN should be in the
I've seen code will only compile with DJGPP if LFN is enabled. But anyone who
is seriously using DJGPP probably knows how to enable LFN.
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On Mon, Nov 7, 2022, 7:08 AM Joseph Norton wrote:
> Hi listers:
>
> I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in FreeDOS
> (or any real DOS).
>
> [...]
>
> I’m curious about what your feelings about lfn are. Do you keep lfn
> turned on, or off? If so, why?
>
I've never been
When sharing files to/from a Windows system it is VERY important...
But for pure DOS work I avoid it as much as possible
BTW, there is NDN navigator that supports it
Alain
On 11/7/22 10:19, John Vella wrote:
In my opinion, the only advantage is that long file names are more
descriptive than
Hello Joseph,
I activate LFN on-demand whenever I want to play QDOSFX or Q2DOSFX,
because these are the only 2 things in my setup that want it. However,
they will not throw fits if it's not present, only warn you that some
content may not work.
Best regards,
Michał
W dniu 7.11.2022 o
In my opinion, the only advantage is that long file names are more
descriptive than 8.3 but that being said, I'm old and used to coming up
with short but descriptive names, so I'm not really bothered one way or the
other.
On Mon, 7 Nov 2022, 13:09 Joseph Norton, wrote:
> Hi listers:
>
>
>
> I’m
Hi listers: I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in FreeDOS (or any real DOS). I notice that the lfn option is rem’d out in the fdauto.bat file by default, so it would appear that, while support seems to be there, the feelings of the developers are leaning toward not using
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