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to: Leonard Erickson
from: Klaus Meinhard
date: 1998-09-29 08:21:22
subject: DOS backup program w/LFN

Hallo Leonard, 

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

I do not want to enter an OS war, but to keep the facts straight: LFN
support is _not_ built into MS-DOS 7.nn. There is absolutely no LFN
suppoort when booting to a straight DOS prompt, as with BOOTGUI=0 in
MSDOS.SYS.

LFN support comes with loading certain WIN9n modules. There was a trick to
get a "32bit LFN-aware DOS" which entailed some renaming of
modules. Perhaps somebody remembers and cares to describe this again?

Ostrhauderfehn, 29. September 1998, 8:21:22

*Klaus Meinhard*

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