On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Rugxulo wrote: > I don't know if they're "hidden", just that usually they aren't > directly exposed to users in default tools. You can still access the > file with either name.
Yeah. Do a "dir /x" in Windows 7 and you'll see that it still makes 8.3 filenames. > DVD image files (and mostly only useful for HD re-encoding, right?) > are the only real-world use case that is constantly mentioned for > needing to support greater than 4+ GB files in FreeDOS. And as such > optical media support is already a bit difficult (not the least of > which is proper ASPI driver support), it makes it less appealing to > developers. I've seen some mammoth video files, apart from dvdisos and bdmvs... but then why would you want those on a DOS machine? ~.^ But my files don't get that big individually - the biggest ones are probably just above 2 GB, and most far smaller. (I do a lot of video work.) -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
