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echo: 4dos
to: Peter Karlsson
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 1998-09-28 10:55:06
subject: DOS backup program w/LFN

-=> Quoting Peter Karlsson to Klaus Meinhard <=-

 KM> DOS, at least any DOS I know, doesn't support LFNs withgout W95/98

 PK> Caldera's DR-DOS does, with a special device driver. But that one's
 PK> rather flaky. 

Well, since Win95/98 *aren't* OSes (they run on top of DOS, just like
older versions of Windows, it's just that MS went to a lot of trouble
to make this non-obvious), the LFN support *is* in the version of DOS
they use. But just barely.

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