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to: Mike Powell
from: Bob Ackley
date: 2002-11-05 07:38:04
subject: Long Filenames in Dos

Replying to a message of Mike Powell to Raymond Rosch:

 RR>> Hi All,
 RR>>   I heard that there is a version of DOS that supports Long File
 RR>> Names.

 MP> I think there is such a version, but can't remember which version it
 MP> is.

 MP> However, there is a web site called "Interesting DOS
Programs" that I
 MP> believe has links to a few DOS utilities (TSRs, I think) that give
 MP> LFN support to DOS.  I have not used them, so I cannot say how well
 MP> they work.

 MP> I also don't have the web site address handy, but a search on the name
 MP> of the site always yields it for me.  ;-)

I know there's a DOS App that allows DOS to read (but not write) in OS/2's
HPFS file system, which itself supports long file names.
Don't remember the name of it, though.

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