Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:03:33 -0500 (EST)
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To: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
cc: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenDOS to be released next week!
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Gene Buckle wrote:

> OpenDOS is 100% compatible with MS-DOS up to 6.22.  There is no LFN
> support, but I imagine that is planned or already being worked on.

The MS LFN sucks in my opinion.  Just another kludge.  However, I would
like to see long filenames in DOS.  I'm getting too used to Linux now, and
hate when I have to move files from Linux to DOS!  Maybe Caldera can
include a NEW filesystem of their own too.  MS keeps coming out with new
ones, (FAT32 yukkk!!, VFAT, NTFS).  A better thing would be to incorporate
the Linux second extended filesystem into OpenDOS.  That would be cool
indeed.  Of course it wouldn't work with legacy apps, but some kludging
could be done about that.


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