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Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? (Users)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 08.07.2009, 07:15

> Great, they make sure not to be sued for silly patents by writing trash
> into the space for the normal file name. Files with such hacked hacked
> directory entries won't be accessible in DOS - even if using DOSLFN.
Blame the patent trolls. Or those who can't live without really long filenames. Anyways, are you surprised? Linux has long since disliked DOS compatibility, so it's not like this is a new thing, more of a symptom of the real problem.

BTW, I still think StarLFN's method (basically use LONGNAME.DAT a la 4DOS' DESCRIPT.ION) is a better idea, but recently I tried compiling some stuff (latest GNU Emacs pretest) with StarLFN loaded, and it slowed down big time! So I dunno, maybe StarLFN isn't ready for primetime. :-/

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