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From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: ms-dos file names longer than 8 characters?
Keywords: filenames
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.010254.15745@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 01:02:54 GMT
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In article <1991Mar28.163451@riddler.Berkeley.EDU> yow@riddler.Berkeley.EDU (Billy Yow 283-4009) writes:
}From article <2179@raybed2.msd.ray.com>, by rgc@raybed2.msd.ray.com
}(RICK CARLE):
}> When will ms-dos have file names longer than 8 characters?
}> 4.0?  5.0?  Never?  Why not?
}
}Microsoft is claiming DOS 6.0 will have an installable file system. 
}Which will provide longer filenames.

The problem isn't getting long filenames into DOS (you could do that in any
version from 3.1 on up by using the network redirector to create an
installable file system), but rather in getting the installed base of
applications to support them.
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