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Re: Long filenames with MS-DOS 7.x

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From: Arthur Hoornweg
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.

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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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From: "Arthur Hoornweg" <arthur.hoornweg@email.de.net>
Subject: Re: Long filenames with MS-DOS 7.x
Date: 1999/03/18
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