Date:	Mon, 11 May 1998 12:42:41 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	Re: next bug in COMMAND.COM
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-id:	<A39A4970BA@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

On Fri, 08 May 1998 Marc D. Williams asked:

> Anyway, any chance this lfn feature will work with 4DOS (or if 
> JPSoft's thinking of supporting it)?
Yes it works, though there have been some problems when I tested it 
with LONGNAME beta 2 and 4DOS 6.00a. Sometimes I got blank columns
on DIR due to unimplemented APIs in LONGNAME beta 2, but I think 
they have been added with beta 3. If I remember well, there was 
also a 4DOS.INI settings Win95SFN=??? to modify 4DOS  algorithms 
of evaluating LFNs for SFNs. 

However, there are a few other problems 4DOS has with DR-DOS, and
they can only be solved by JP Soft. E.g. 4DOS  support for DR-DOS
passwords is very crude, and it is almost impossible to access
files in password protected directories. There are also some syntax
incompatibilities, but in general 4DOS works great on DR-DOS.

 Matthias

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