Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:45:43 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	Re: DR-Dos updates
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-id:	<7B77422B0A@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 Marc D . Williams wrote:

> Anyone try DRMOUSE yet? It won't work at all and keeps saying
> No Mouse Detected. Tried all the switches I could but no go.
DRMOUSE currently has some problems to detect a few mice 
(apparently some Logitech or Genius serial mice), however my 
Logitech 3-button PS/2 mouse is successfully detected by the 
driver and works OK.

> The page also mentions something about LFN with regards to command.com
> but as far as I know there still isn't any LFN support in this command.com.
The LFN support is provided by the installable LONGNAME driver, 
not by the command processor like COMMAND.COM. It could also 
be provided by another driver, like the VxD layer under Windows 95.
 
However, to work with long filenames the command processor also needs 
to use the new LFN API functions instead of the traditional function 
set. DR-DOS COMMAND.COM does that since DR-OpenDOS 7.02+, so does the 
DR-DOS 7.03 BETA COMMAND.COM, and so does for example 4DOS 6.00+. To 
provide long filenames the shell is not bound on LONGNAME; for 
example you can use DR-DOS' COMMAND.COM as a better shell replacement 
in a Windows 95 DOS-box, too.

Matthias

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