From: mwood AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu (Mark H. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: OpenDOS to be released next week!
Message-ID: <1997Jan21.141911.27718@indyvax.iupui.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 97 14:19:11 -0500
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In article <32ecfa7c DOT 13120691 AT news DOT polaristel DOT net>, timg AT climax DOT polaristel DOT net (Tim Gerla) writes:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:03:33 GMT, root <root AT 206 DOT 172 DOT 218 DOT 60> 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. :) 

Indeed, those of us who are old enough will remember the DATE75 hack-in-a-hack
that spread the three additional date bits across three different words in the
directory structure.  (You youngsters can just sit back and laugh at how the
old timers did things...for now.)  Take a look at the horrible LFN hair as
documented in Ralf Brown's famous interrupt list, but not on a full stomach.
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