Hi there
Is it possible with some soft of hack to use more than 8.3 characters in Dos 6.22?
Thanks
Peter
No, it's a limitation of the FAT file system.
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.
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
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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wrote:Or just use Dos 7 ripped from a Win9x install.
DOS 7 is recommended (and 7.1 even more so) but you still need DOSLFN to enable LFN support outside Windows.
