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Re: Long filenames with MS-DOS 7.x

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From: Alexander Stohr
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:00
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http://ludens.elte.hu/~sta/lfndos.html
    it can read and write long filenames from and into a system+hidden file

http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/dosuser/dosutils.htm
    Provides the Windows 95 long filename API to DOS programs.

http://goof.com/pcg/djgpp/
    The NT LFN Project Page (getting Long File Names to work on Windows NT)

Andreas Killer wrote:

> Hello everybody.
>
> I have an idea to write a TSR for MS-DOS 7.x that supports the
> Longfilename-INT's from Win9x. In other words, if I load this TSR I can
> access long filename i.E. with my LFN-unit very easy.
>
> I've started with the basics (reading and interpret the root-dir of some
> FAT12 upto FAT32 Drives) and I can see that my idea works. But now
> before I start with this enourmous work I think I should ask some
> questions:
>
> Did you know of a program that works like this?
> Did you know of a program that support long filenames under MS-DOS in an
> other way?
> Did you have informations for me that can help me to write such a
> program?
> Are you interested to have such a program?
> Did you made some experiments to write a program like this?
> Are you interested to help me to write such a program?
>
> If you can answer only one of this question please let me know. Thanks
> for your advise.
>
> By, Andreas.
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From: Alexander Stohr <AlexS@freepage.de>
Subject: Re: Long filenames with MS-DOS 7.x
Date: 1999/03/17
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