Hi, On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 at 01:41, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/20/2023 1:52 PM, Aitor Santamaría wrote: > > Hello Eric, > > > > More than useable, it was just a question of historical curiosity. > > > > In a very long time ago posted thread (I haven't tested myself) it > > was suggested that the redirector API does not work well with LFNs. I > > am not suggesting that the unmaintained DOS IFS would do, but I was > > curious to know how do these two different approaches to third party > > filesystems (redirector and IFS) compare to each other, and how they > > both deal with: LFNs, case sensitivity, unicode names, big files, and > > a long etc. > > > That is not very surprising, as the DOS network redirector was devised > well before long filenames became a thing with Windows 95B. And I do Yeah well, that doesn't sound too sensible to me is that you implement LFN only for int 21h and you don't bother to adapt the redirector, which is your designed escape way for other filesystems? Aitor
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