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From: "Martin G. Pircher" <martin DOT pircher AT austria DOT cp DOT philips DOT com>
Organization: Origin Information Technology/Austria
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:18:20 +0010
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Subject: LFN-support/changes to on kernel
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Hi,

On  Sun, 6 Jul 1997 10:03:41 -0700 geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net wrote:
[...]
>
> It is Win95 compatible at both the API and physical disk levels. It
> supports all Int 21h 71xx long name extensions. 
>
> Unzip the file http://www.caldera.co.uk/dos/download/lfnb1.exe and follow
> the readme instructions. Basically you load the TSR and then use the new
> COMMAND.COM. The new COMMAND.COM can also be used as a Win95 DOS box shell
> in  place of the MS-DOS prompt. 
>
> BEWARE THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE!!!!!!!!
>
> Other utilities are being converted to long name support now and will be
> added to the beta later. 
[...]

When Caldera releases the sources to the new kernel with
their changes (will they?) we should think _now_ on bringing it together
with Matthias changes sometimes, otherwise we have 2 totally
different version, and there's a lot of work to bring them together!

Maybe there's a way that Matthias version could be easily implemented
in the Caldera's one?

Also, for using the new command.com now it would be interesting at
what update level Caldera's working sources are?

>The new COMMAND.COM can also be used as a Win95 DOS box shell
> in  place of the MS-DOS prompt. 

I haven't tried now, but if i can use the command.com now as Win95 DOS box,
it seems COD is moving toward Win95 compatibility. Has anyone already tried
to use it instead of DOS7?

cheers,
Martin