There is a version 6.58 of Total commander for 16-bit Windows, interestingly it has the option to display long file names, however, enabling this feature seems to have no effect, since the file names are truncated to 8.3.
Is third party software required for this to work?
Possibly you need to be on DOS 6.22 ???
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BitWrangler wrote on 2024-03-05, 23:31:Possibly you need to be on DOS 6.22 ???
I have also tested it on a real machine with MS-DOS 6.22.
Maybe you need some LFN driver for M$-DOS, Win3.xx or both, since there's no support long file names natively. Or maybe the problem is even deeper - FAT12/16 LFN compatibility issues.
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Yeah there were at least three common LFN drivers around back in the day, not sure what TC would consider the "default" one, or whether they all had to use the same hooks so any should be compatible. The late DOS LFN compatibility was kinda meagre, it just didn't screw it up, like older DOS ver might, with losing the extra LFN data on copy etc. Didn't get the fuller compatibility like on a 9x boot disk. A thing to remember is Win caches stuff so may have to force refreshes, or even exit and restart.
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As far as I know, there are some options to run Win3.11 on FAT32 partitioned drive with M$-DOS 7.10 and LFN support in various degrees, but I never tried such combination (Win3.11 on top of DOS 7.10).
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I tried Instant File Access, doslfn, Long File Names for Windows, v2.06 by View Software and I can say that they offer long file names in certain contexts, but not in Total Comamnder 16-bit.
Probably Total Commander 6.58 16-bit expects FAT32 or something else.
Thanks everyone for your help.
Just wondering actually if it's for the long filename standard for CDs that pre-existed MS's long filenames.
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The author of Total Commander recommended using the 16-bit version for Windows95 on weak machines, since it works much faster than the 32-bit version. I checked and this is indeed the case. In Windows95, long file names are supported by the 16-bit version. This feature can be disabled or enabled.
I suspected that this LFN option has nothing to do with Win3.xx versions. So, it really is for Win9x.
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