Replying to a message of RiverWind to All:

 R> From: RiverWind 

 R> Greetings,

 R> I have recently installed dos71 on a rebuilt machine, and I
 R> am not able to get dos to recognize long filenames. It still
 R> wants to use the eight character naming protocol and the
 R> three character extention. I have read the help screens
 R> extensively, and I don't seem to be able to come up with a
 R> solution.

Most likely because AFAIK there isn't one.  The DOS file naming
convention (8.3) is a holdover from CP/M, and they probably got
it someplace else.  DOS also won't handle NTFS partitions, or FTM
any format other than FAT or, maybe, FAT32.  ISTR there may be
a DOS driver that allows one to read, but not write NTFS partitions,
but DOS won't deal with the long file names.

 R> The line in my autoexec.bat appears as follows.
 R> Might any of you have suggestions as to how this line can be
 R> modified, or perhaps any other things I might try?

 R> LH DOSLFN /Z:C:\DOS71\CP437UNI.TBL

 R> Any help would be most sincerely appreciated.

I haven't dealt much with DOS for over a decade - when I switched
from DR-DOS 6 to OS/2.  I have a box here with DR-DOS (Novell DOS)
7 on it, but I don't use it much (in fact not at all because it has hardware
'issues').

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