Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 17:14:47 +0300
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> From: "Matthew Smith" <matt AT the-good-stuff DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:59:15 +0100
> 
> > > This is OK, you have DOS 7.0 with a dead Win95
> > > but you still need the line
> > > SET LFN=Y
> > > in your autoexec.bat
> >
> > No, he doesn't; not when running plain DOS, anyway.
> 
> Is this
>      a) he doesn't have DOS 7.0 with LFN support?
> or b) he doesn't need LFN support?

What I meant is that setting LFN=y on plain DOS will have no effect.
It's possible that the installation is broken because the files were
unzipped on Windows with LFN support, but setting LFN=y in plain DOS
mode will not solve this problem.

> Prashant, beware XCOPY will still truncate to 8.3. unless
> there's a switch I don't know.

AFAIK, XCOPY doesn't truncate if invoked on Windows.