From: timg AT climax DOT polaristel DOT net (Tim Gerla) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:28:27 GMT Organization: MEANS Lines: 35 Message-ID: <32ecfa7c.13120691@news.polaristel.net> References: Reply-To: timg AT climax DOT polaristel DOT net NNTP-Posting-Host: halstad-84.dialup.means.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:03:33 GMT, root wrote: >On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Gene Buckle wrote: > >> OpenDOS is 100% compatible with MS-DOS up to 6.22. There is no LFN >> support, but I imagine that is planned or already being worked on. > >The MS LFN sucks in my opinion. Just another kludge. However, I would >like to see long filenames in DOS. I'm getting too used to Linux now, and >hate when I have to move files from Linux to DOS! Maybe Caldera can >include a NEW filesystem of their own too. MS keeps coming out with new >ones, (FAT32 yukkk!!, VFAT, NTFS). A better thing would be to incorporate >the Linux second extended filesystem into OpenDOS. That would be cool >indeed. Of course it wouldn't work with legacy apps, but some kludging >could be done about that. > Win95 LFNs are horrible. As you said above, it's a complete kludge! For those who don't know the gory details, Windows just adds more entries in the FAT for longer file names. So, if you have a 16 letter filename, it uses up two FAT entries! It's really screwy IMHO. :) Another thing...that Temporary Internet Files folder is REALLY screwed up! In Explorer, only one big directory shows up. Under DOS, four CACHE# directories are there. If you try to open a cached file in Explorer, it returns an error message, because the file is REALLY in one of the CACHE# directories! Urg... What a horrible OS. :) But I am getting off topic. I'll quit now! -Tim -- Tyball AT irc, -====- Greeter Tim Gerla -- timg AT climax DOT polaristel DOT net -- http://timg.home.ml.org/ Unsolicitied e-mail is probihited. Copyright (C) 1996 Tim Gerla Caldera sues Micro$oft, buys DR-DOS and Novell DOS 7, will release OpenDOS, the FREE DOS with multitasking, much more! www.caldera.com