From:	Bill Currie <bcurrie AT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Long file names in plain DOS
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:58:03 +1200
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Gautier 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?

Yes, that was me working on it, back in October/Novemeber though.

> (Original poster not found) There is a LFN TSR which implements the same
> functions as Win95 ----> http://www.caldera.com/dos/html/choose.html

Iyuk.  That driver has a lot of problems (not that mine doesn't, it
won't even *WRITE* LFNs yet:) which is why I started writing my own. 
However, it does READ long file names without any problems, even on
FAT32 drives, and it's been tested on DOS 6.x, 7.1 (?? the one with
FAT32) and OpenDOS 7.??.

Anyone who wants a copy of my (incomplete) LFN driver should send me
mail at bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz (home computer) and I will post it to
you (and the hacked djasm.y file, many many extensions:).  Yes, it's
pure 16 bit asm.

Hmmm, might be time to get back into my driver (I got a bit tired and
frustrated).

Bill
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