R>> I have recently installed dos71 on a rebuilt machine, and I am not
 R>> able to get dos to recognize long filenames. It still wants to use
 R>> the eight character naming protocol and the three character

 ...

 VC> The Dos specification has only supported 8.3 filenames ie
 VC> FAT and not FAT32. The only way around this is installing
 VC> Dos via Win 98 SE into a floppy which does so but by memory
 VC> has a very limited of supplied utilities.

 VC> It is possible that one or more of the free versions of Dos
 VC> eg FreeDos does support this specification, however there
 VC> are limits on file name and path sizing.

 Try Romdos.

 It comes up quickly if you google it.



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