From: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Compile probs.... --ACK!! Long file name probl & win 95!!!
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 21:58:10 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:01:39 +0300 (IDT):

>On Tue, 12 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> If this "plain DOS" is really DOS 7.0, the Windows 95 one, then LFNs will
>> work from it as long as LFN=Y, and the previous poster is incorrect. Of
>> course, LFN's still will not work with DOS <7, for obvious reasons.
>
>MS-DOS 7 can be run in plain DOS mode, without loading the Windows
>GUI.  When you do that, you don't have the long file name support,
>since the LFN API functions implemented in the IFSMgr module which
>only loads as part of Windows.  (Did you really think Uncle Bill will
>let you use long file names outside of Windows for free?)

Yes. But under Linux there is a vfat driver available. Shouldn't it be "easy"
to port this to plain DOS? Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I don't have much
experience with device drivers for Linux, so this might be a substantial
problem I'm not aware of.

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Bye,
   Gerhard

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