From: Gautier DOT DeMontmollin AT maths DOT unine DOT ch (Gautier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Long file names in plain DOS
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Date: 17 Mar 98 17:01:44 MET
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>> Martin Stromberg wrote in message <6dhcee$6bb$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>...
>> >Is it possible to get long file names in DOS 6.22?
>> Bill Currie might have been working on something like this.  Somebody is,
>> not sure if it was him though.  Maybe check the djgpp-workers archive from
>> december or so?

> 4dos has some scheme where a filename translation table is stored in a file
> which has a reserved (and peculiar) name. Possibly this is the sort of thing
> that started people doing things like 00_index.txt on CDROMS (the 4dos
> technique goes back quite a few years). The slight problem is that only tools
> that understand the trick will handle the long file names. If it's put into
> the DJGPP library then that means only tools compiled with DJGPP.
 
> Haven't used 4dos for a lot of years so I'll leave someone else to speak
> of the current state of the art.

(Original poster not found) There is a LFN TSR which implements the same
functions as Win95 ----> http://www.caldera.com/dos/html/choose.html

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Gautier

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