On 11/8/2022 11:57 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote:
How is any Linux feature possibly helping me with running an older,
non-LFN aware program on (Free)DOS?
It won't.
If FreeDOS were to learn the same alternative way of not using the
"tail" (~1, ~2 and so on) on short file names, at least we
On Nov 8 2022, 17:40, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 11/8/2022 2:55 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote:
On Nov 8, 2022, 01:58, Ralf Quint wrote:
But I only use this feature sparingly, as there are a lot of older
software that can't handle them. And the mapping to some xyz~1.abc is
actually losing two sign
Hi Ralf,
>> On Linux, you can mount a FAT filesystem with the mount option
>> "nonumtail", where you don't get the trailing "~1" at the end when it is
>> still possible, e.g. when there are no other files with the same name.
>
> How is any Linux feature possibly helping me with running an older,
On 11/8/2022 2:55 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote:
On Nov 8, 2022, 01:58, Ralf Quint wrote:
But I only use this feature sparingly, as there are a lot of older
software that can't handle them. And the mapping to some xyz~1.abc is
actually losing two significant characters of those 8 available f
On Nov 8, 2022, 01:58, Ralf Quint wrote:
But I only use this feature sparingly, as there are a lot of older
software that can't handle them. And the mapping to some xyz~1.abc is
actually losing two significant characters of those 8 available for
generally usable filenames.
On Linux, you can mou
On 11/7/2022 5:07 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
Hi listers:
I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in
FreeDOS (or any real DOS).
I notice that the lfn option is rem’d out in the fdauto.bat file by
default, so it would appear that, while support seems to be there, the
feeli
Hi Joseph,
> I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in FreeDOS
> (or any real DOS).
lfnwhat? :-D
Cheers,
Robert
--
BTTR Software https://www.bttr-software.de/
DOS ain't dead https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/
___
Freedos-use
Am 07.11.22 um 14:07 schrieb Joseph Norton:
Hi listers:
I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in FreeDOS (or any
real DOS).
Before you read on: FreeDOS 1.1 was the last version I actually used...
(Didn't find the time...)
For FreeDOS I think that LFN should be in the ke
I've seen code will only compile with DJGPP if LFN is enabled. But anyone who
is seriously using DJGPP probably knows how to enable LFN.
___
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freed
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022, 7:08 AM Joseph Norton wrote:
> Hi listers:
>
> I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in FreeDOS
> (or any real DOS).
>
> [...]
>
> I’m curious about what your feelings about lfn are. Do you keep lfn
> turned on, or off? If so, why?
>
I've never been
When sharing files to/from a Windows system it is VERY important...
But for pure DOS work I avoid it as much as possible
BTW, there is NDN navigator that supports it
Alain
On 11/7/22 10:19, John Vella wrote:
In my opinion, the only advantage is that long file names are more
descriptive than 8
Hello Joseph,
I activate LFN on-demand whenever I want to play QDOSFX or Q2DOSFX,
because these are the only 2 things in my setup that want it. However,
they will not throw fits if it's not present, only warn you that some
content may not work.
Best regards,
Michał
W dniu 7.11.2022 o 14:07
In my opinion, the only advantage is that long file names are more
descriptive than 8.3 but that being said, I'm old and used to coming up
with short but descriptive names, so I'm not really bothered one way or the
other.
On Mon, 7 Nov 2022, 13:09 Joseph Norton, wrote:
> Hi listers:
>
>
>
> I’m
Hi listers: I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in FreeDOS (or any real DOS). I notice that the lfn option is rem’d out in the fdauto.bat file by default, so it would appear that, while support seems to be there, the feelings of the developers are leaning toward not using i
14 matches
Mail list logo
