On 6 Mar 99 at 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 05:55 AM 07/03/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >How does lfn work any way?
> >all I see from the dos level are things like c:\progra~1\textbr~1
>
> LOng file name simply means that it can have more than 8 chars and even
> contain the space. Like instead of "Ntscpcom.exe" it would be "netscape
> communicator.exe"
> Dos with LFN support such as DOS 7.0 then changes it to netsca~1.exe
> Older DOS chops off the end and can't do bugger all with it.
MS-DOS 7 supports the LFN API as you said, but not completly. For the
LFN to work, Windows 95 should be working in the background. Also,
as mentioned in this list before, the LFN API can be also ran without
Windows 95 using special TSRs that do the same thing. One such TSR
was under develop by Caldera for DR-DOS, but is no longer in
development. There is another beta LFN TSR availble, however, that
can work on all the DOSs that support LFN.
DOSs that have support for the LFN API that I know of:
Caldera DR-DOS 7.02 or better.
MS-DOS 7.
Or Botton
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