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Subject:	Re: Long file names in plain DOS
Date:	15 Mar 1998 12:08:11 GMT
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com> wrote:

> Martin Stromberg wrote in message <6dhcee$6bb$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>...
> >Is it possible to get long file names in DOS 6.22?
> Bill Currie might have been working on something like this.  Somebody is,
> not sure if it was him though.  Maybe check the djgpp-workers archive from
> december or so?

4dos has some scheme where a filename translation table is stored in a file
which has a reserved (and peculiar) name. Possibly this is the sort of thing
that started people doing things like 00_index.txt on CDROMS (the 4dos
technique goes back quite a few years). The slight problem is that only tools
that understand the trick will handle the long file names. If it's put into
the DJGPP library then that means only tools compiled with DJGPP.

Haven't used 4dos for a lot of years so I'll leave someone else to speak
of the current state of the art.

	- Tel

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