First post, by pekr
Hi there
Is it possible with some soft of hack to use more than 8.3 characters in Dos 6.22?
Thanks
Peter
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.