Can somebody please give me a rundown on the long filename issue, when running under “pure, real DOS”? I’ve seen various LFN utilities and drivers mentioned, but don’t know how to incorporate them, on a bootdisk say, and what the limitations and potential dangers might be. For instance, if I use a copy *.* to another folder, is there a risk of ending up with 8.3 filenames in the target? Seems to me like you’d need a LFN version of command.com for things to work properly. ???
Alan
Edited – I decided to rephrase this in the hope that somebody has visited the issue before. It appears to me that there are 3 ways of dealing with long filenames in “real” DOS for Windows 98 i.e. DOS 7.x. (This would be DOS as loaded from a boot disk – nothing to do with W98 other than belonging with that OS distribution.) There is the possibility of using 3rd party “LFN tools” for operations like copy, rename, dir; there is the choice of using a TSR/driver that enables the use of LFNs with the resident DOS or there is the possibility of using a different DOS altogether e.g. DR DOS. There’s also the option of using a Linux boot disk/ CD.
Any info on pros/cons, how to, links etc. would be appreciated. I don’t really have a decent feel for the issues involved here.
