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From: "Marc D. Williams" <wilmarc AT gte DOT net>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:40:11 PST8PDT
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Subject:       Re: DR-Dos updates
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On  4 Sep 98, Matthias Paul wrote,

> I'm not sure about this one, but usually DR-DOS COMMAND.COM should
> provide the same functionality regarding long filenames as MS-DOS 7+
> COMMAND.COM does (except for the LFNFOR command). Have you tried
> the current issue of COMMAND.COM as available on Caldera's web-server?
> 

I have the latest beta command.com, doesn't matter. With command.com I get
  dir:      shortname   fileinfo (size/date/time)   longname
  dir /w:   shortname (only)
  dir /2:   shortname (only)

The update page said command.com was fixed in regards to the two-column
display and long filenames. Apparently not.

> As far as I know, it already does, if the driver has been loaded
> before the shell - at least with 4DOS 6.00+ (to my knowledge the 
> current issue is 6.01a). 
> 

No go there either. 4DOS 6.01a and longname.exe don't talk to each
other. Loaded longname in config.sys (install= ) before 4DOS (shell= )
but it doesn't matter. 

You'd think Caldera would have updated longname.exe, too. Far as I
know it hasn't been updated since last year.

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