From:	Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Write LFN handler for raw DOS?
Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:56:12 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>                                          AFAIK, long names without
> Windows 95 requires direct disk access to read-write raw directory
> entries.   Direct disk access is not easy, and requires to read the
> entire disk (or its large parts) into memory before you can do
> anything useful.  

I'm stumbling with this idea since a while, and I well thought it
through. I'm sure you do not require direct disk access, but the
implementation of such a system is difficult. But one advantage would be
that even many old DOS programs could use LFN names.

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