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From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Long File Names under MSDOS?
Message-ID: <21980.27caf279@cluster@ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Feb 91 23:42:49 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.175709.24034@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <8482@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <8482@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, ryan@neon-tetra.Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Ryan Ginn) writes:
> I'm interested in either un-tar programs for the IBM PC which are capable of
> dealing with long filenames in a reasonable fashion, or in some kind of DOS
> add-on which allows one to manipulate files with long names.  
> 
> Does OS/2 let you deal with long file names?

OS/2 allows long (up to 254/255 chars) on an HPFS file system. It's wonderful!
I have moved several programs from UNIX systems with no real trouble, other
than preserving the names during the transfer.

The HPFS is accessible from the DOS emulator in OS/2, but not from DOS 4.
I heard a rumour that there is an update for DOS so that it can understand
(read only?) HPFS volumes but I have no real knowledge of this.

DOS utilities won't automatically handle long names on OS/2, though.

Move to OS/2! It's not that expensive, it's surprisingly fast, and you get
all sorts of nice goodies.
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