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LFNs in FreeCOM (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 08.04.2008, 18:31

> > 0.82pl3 "stable" (Eric Auer's favorite) doesn't support LFNs, but
> current
> > 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap does
>
> I already knew, but it doesn't seem to be stable.
0.84 has some bugs, but they are very very rare in my experience. However, if it acts up for you, best to avoid it.

> > link). I'm not saying it's perfect, but do check it out: LFNFOR, DIR
> > /LFN, etc. (unless you have other reasons?). You could also try 4DOS,
>
> 1) "/LFN" option didn't change "DIR"'s behavior.
What does it not do that you want it to?

> Do I need an LFN-aware kernel

There is no such kernel that I'm aware of. Only things like RxDOS (or Datalight ROM DOS??) support LFNs natively.

> (I SYSed from your BARE_DOS image)
The LFN-aware shell (0.84-pre2) is in \386\ as COMMAND2.COM (since it's not 8086 compatible, needs 186+ or whatever I dunno exactly).

> or DOSLFN to make it work?
Presumably not if you're using it on Win2k. Otherwise, in pure DOS, yes.

Okay, I just tried this WinXP computer: you need to type "LFNFOR on" (for using LFNs in "FOR %a ...") then "LFNFOR COMPLETE on" (for tab completion of LFN files). Just plain "dir" isn't doing anything special for me (SFNs only), but "dir /lfn" seems to basically work (although not with /B, and even when it does work, it's only this format: "SFN fsize fdate ftime LFN").

P.S. You don't have to use 4DOS, but it does support LFNs (not that I ever use it for that, though, honestly).

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