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From: shadow AT shadowgard DOT com
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:48:52 -0800
Subject: Re: LFN-drivers
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On 30 Jan 2005 at 2:14, paul_spam AT gmx DOT at wrote:

> OpenDOS-guys out there,
> 
> I'm an MS-DOS guy, which is really bad, I know, but my system is
> running, and I won't touch it *gg*. But I find OpenDOS/DR-DOS/FreeDOS
> quite interesting!
> 
> What I don't get is the LFNDOS and DOSLFN-driver thing. I know that
> they implement the LFN-API and enable some programs to have LFN
> support. But what about the DOSes themselves, does e.g. a "dir"
> display the long filenames?

That's a function of the program providing the directory listing.

From the command line that'd be command.com, or some replacement, 
such as 4dos. I'm pretty sure that 4dos will display the long 
filenames if you've got some sort of LFN support installed.

--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com


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