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From: cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: ms-dos file names longer than 8 characters?
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.045058.11297@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 04:50:58 GMT
References: <1991Mar29.010254.15745@cs.cmu.edu>
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From article <1991Mar29.010254.15745@cs.cmu.edu>, by ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown):
> }> When will ms-dos have file names longer than 8 characters?
> }> 4.0?  5.0?  Never?  Why not?
> }
> 
> 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.

I'm tellin' you, there is a down and dirty way of doing this.  I have
thought long and hard about this.  It will take a bit of trickery to
DOS, but I think I'll prototype some things for the H of it.  The only
danger to my solution is that programs like PC-BACKUP will tend to show
goofy looking file names.  I'm giving the idea away slowly here.  Is
it really worth my time here?  I'm serious.  For the folks around
this net, I would give source and executables, but does anybody think
this is worth any money in general, or is this just a wish (laundry) list?

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