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Article #359Re: Long filenames with MS-DOS 7.x
From: Arthur Hoornweg
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:00
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I believe there is a driver in CALDERA OPENDOS that does just this thing. There exists also a tool called DOSLFNBK.EXE that can store long filenames into an ascii file, and restore them too. -- (To answer me, remove the ".net" from my e-mail address) Arthur M. Hoornweg Andreas Killer schrieb in Nachricht <36EF624B.771AA8E1@t-online.de>... >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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108ebd,3bfb18551829294b X-Google-Attributes: gid108ebd,public X-Google-Thread: 111659,3bfb18551829294b X-Google-Attributes: gid111659,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,3bfb18551829294b X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public From: "Arthur Hoornweg" <arthur.hoornweg@email.de.net> Subject: Re: Long filenames with MS-DOS 7.x Date: 1999/03/18 Message-ID: <7cqb52$qep$1@reader2.wxs.nl> X-Deja-AN: 456030430 References: <36EF624B.771AA8E1@t-online.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wxs.nl X-Trace: reader2.wxs.nl 921743330 27097 195.121.23.132 (18 Mar 1999 07:48:50 GMT) Organization: World Access / Planet Internet NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Mar 1999 07:48:50 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.borland,borland.public.turbopascal,comp.lang.pascal.misc