Hello RiverWind!

03 Jan 10 14:17, you wrote to Open Dos Discussion Group:

 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
 R> extention. I have read the help screens extensively, and I don't
 R> seem to be able to come up with a solution. The line in my
 R> autoexec.bat appears as follows. Might any of you have suggestions
 R> as to how this line can be modified, or perhaps any other things I
 R> might try?

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

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

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


Vince

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