Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 17:53:19 +1200
From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
Subject: Long Filename Support (was Re: The compiling tools
To: opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to: M DOT Aitchison AT phys DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz
Message-id: <199704040553.RAA21711@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>


If a device driver (or TSR) processed DOS calls with AH=71h by
looking at the directory entries (bypasing DOS), it would be
possible to add long filename support for OpenDOS, DRDOS and
even MSDOS 7 out of Win95 mode.  For efficiency, the program
should be built into the cache I guess.

Even better, make a device driver that reads ext2fs and hpfs
partitions and makes these files available to DOS programs via
the same interface.

I can read long filenames under OpenDOS from VFAT or extfs (with
some limitations), but making them available to programs (allowing for
mixed use of old calls and new ones) seems a bit difficult.  But if
there is enough interest I could take it further.

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