From: "Florian Xaver" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: LFN for DOS
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:43:20 +0200
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>Florian wrote:
>>I want to use LFN in Dr-DOS, because I want to hear mp3s and most of them
>>need LFN (also for playing list).
>
>For the files: No
>For the playlists: No

I want to huse a playlist in DOS and Windows, and most files havve no id3
tag, so I need the file name to know which  music it is!

>
>All files have normal names and these can be used. Use "dir/b
>*.mp3>mylist.m3u" to create your mp3 playlist. (This format is called
>"WinAmp playlist but was first used in WinPlay AFAIK - WinPlay was the
>first mp3 player in case you were wondering).
>
>If you are refering to FAT32 then you have a diffrent kind of problem.
>
>>So I tried LFNDOS, but under Dr-DOS all programs have problems. (Normly
>>DJGPP should have no problems)

I found out that there are no problems if a second command.com is started.
The TSR - Modus have a bug.
Maybe I can find it.

>
>I don't really think lfndos is of much use, I couldn't use it when testing
>LFN support for Arachne. (I'm using MS-DOS).

Arachne doesn't support LFN.

>
>>I tried also an old beta version of Lineo's LFN driver, but it also didn't
>>go!
>
>Actually I never had time to test that (with Arachne), I'll need to do that
>some time.
>//Bernie
>http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
>

bye, florian