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According to Charles Sandmann:
> If someone can find a short name only environment that needs files over
> 2GB, and can show they work, I would suggest they re-write the code to 
> support it, without breaking DOS networking.

I think they might work in FreeDOS and I don't see why we should
disallow 4GB files in plain DOS if the filesystem is FAT32 which
clearly does allow them. LFN shouldn't have anything to do with
it. (But it does today in DOS 7 because of MS' bugs.)

However I don't have time so I can't really mess with this (now at
least).

I guess it's not easy to detect whether the file is on a network disk
or not, right?


Right,

						MartinS