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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 17:19:38 +0000
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From: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" <Ian AT darkblak DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
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In article <30177 DOT 9702021617 AT dufftown DOT dcs DOT st-andrews DOT ac DOT uk>, dg AT dcs DOT st-
and.ac.uk writes
>The main thing that needs done, though, is the long filenames interface. From 
>Ralf Brown's interrupt list:
>
>       MS-DOS 7 (Chicago) - LONG FILENAME FUNCTIONS
>
>       AH = 71h
>       AL = function
>       0Dh reset drive
>       39h create directory
>       3Ah remove directory
>       3Bh set current directory
>       41h delete file
>       43h get file attributes (BL=00h), set file attributes (BL=01h)
>       47h get current directory
>       4Eh find first file
>       4Fh find next file
>       56h move (rename) file
>       6Ch create/open file
>
>This doesn't look too hard, now, does it? Come on, someone could write a TSR 
>that implements it on top of FAT, either as VFAT or using look-up files 
>without much difficulty.

TSR?  Are you on drugs?  It would be far better if we were to compile
the components that you want into IBMDOS.SYS (or whatever).  This would
provide the fastest system possible.

And perhaps also go along the lines of Linux and have loadable modules
(a bit like VLMs).

DrDebug

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