On 2/21/2023 4:29 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
Hallo Herr Ralf Quint,
am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2023 um 01:17 schrieben Sie:
Don't recall when MSCDEX first showed up, but I think it was
after the networking redirector stuff (for both Novell and LanManager) in
MS-DOS 3.0.
early version of Novell hooked a couple of interrupts (INT 21 beneath
them) to implement another filesystem on top of DOS.
when MSCDEX and the related 'networking interface' appeared Novell
reengineered the redirector to use this interface below DOS.
I dont know if long filenames where available on Novell on Win95, but
they were certainly not available on DOS.
I was jogging my memory a bit, and there was a specially NLM that needed
to be loaded on NW3.12 and NW 4.0 at least to get "long filename
support". But there was also the issue of permissions, which was far
more granular (and logical) than it is even today in the Windows world.
All the info on that stuff is on my NW 3.12 server, which is currently
in my storage... :(
Ralf
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