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From: Michal Kopec <mkopec AT campus DOT filus DOT edu DOT pl>
Subject: national characters in filenamesv [2]
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 97 11:56:04 PST
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>>I've installed OD 7.01 on my computer. I works perfectly with 
>>WfW3.11. However it refuses to read my files with national 
>>characters (Polish - CP852) in file names created by previous 
>>MSDOS.
>>Is there any solution to force OD to read these files ?

>This is interesting. I guess you do not have yet used Windows95 
>LFNs or Caldera s LONGNAME driver, which cause several
>implications in national language support. (LONGNAME 1C does
>not support special chars at the moment. Windows95 does with 
>Unicode, but it does not (easily) allow to switch codepages.)

>The only guess I have, is that your national language support is 
>not configured correctly on your system. 
>Are the filenames displayed with strange characters?

>Please provide more details on your NLS configuration, and the 
>actual filenames. 

Filenames (by dir command) are displayed with strange characters 
(This must happen since OD doesn't have polish characters)
but reading such file (eg. type michaˆ.doc) gives "file not found" 
error.
All other files (in OPENDOS or WINDOWS directory) can be read 
correctly.

I know OD doesn't have NLS for Poland (048,852) but _how_ to force 
OD to read such files. Booting MSDOS and file renaming would be a 
nuissance.

I've experimented by adding to CONFIG.SYS
COUNTRY=007,866,C:\OPENDOS\COUNTRY.SYS  or
COUNTRY=033,437,C:\OPENDOS\COUNTRY.SYS
This helped only to _some_ of files with national characters in 
name.

>Can you see your files from a shell like the NC?

Yes. I see files but I cannot view them (Can't find file error)

Michal Kopec
mkopec AT campus DOT filus DOT edu DOT pl