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First post, by pekr

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Hi there

Is it possible with some soft of hack to use more than 8.3 characters in Dos 6.22?

Thanks
Peter

Reply 2 of 5, by Azarien

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jesolo wrote:

No, it's a limitation of the FAT file system.

A limitation that was successfully overcome in Windows 95.

There's DOSLFN, giving you Windows 95's LFN API for long filenames, but only a limited number of DOS programs supports this API.

Reply 3 of 5, by chinny22

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Or just use Dos 7 ripped from a Win9x install.
From memory the only things that NEED dos 6 is Windows 3x which there is a hack for, and DOS disk utilities that don't understand fat32 and corrupt the drive

Reply 4 of 5, by Jo22

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chinny22 wrote:

From memory the only things that NEED dos 6 is Windows 3x which there is a hack for,
and DOS disk utilities that don't understand fat32 and corrupt the drive

And pure 16-Bit systems (PC/XT/AT), too. 😀

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