Hi,
Could this be usefull to you. Burks is a great site. Can even be bought
in total on cdrom although this might stop soon. I missed the first parts
of your post but hope I'm not repeating things.
http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/software/misc/index.htm
The page calls it
lfnble10.zip A utility which enables old Windows 3.1
programs running on Windows to use long filenames.
It's an 88K zip.
Regards Steve Jarvis
At 09:24 17/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:01:55 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Gregg Eshelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> The file I'm tyring to track down is viewlfn.zip and
>> was uploaded to Simtel in 1996 by View Software Inc.
>>
>> It's the last version of their "Long Filenames for
>> Windows 95 and Windows 3.1". It's the only software
>> ever made that gives 100% compatable access to the
>> Win95 VFAT long filename system to Windows 3.1x and
>> 16bit apps running on Windows 95.
>
>Gregg, I know you've been looking for that program for some time.
>Hope you are yet able to find it without paying full retail for just
>a disk (Double Bleah).
>
>I've been doing some searching myself for viewlfn.zip for you after
>having read the post on Google Groups, but with no success. I've
>thrown about every file search tool I know of at it. To save you some
>time (and for future reference in file searching), I'll at least tell
>you where I've looked:
>
>
>Search Engines
>==============
>
>http://www.google.com
>http://www.dogpile.com
>http://www.filesearching.com/advanced
>http://www.filemirrors.com
>http://www.freewareweb.com/ftpsearch.shtml
>http://ftpsearch.elmundo.es:8000/ftpsearch
>http://ftp.veoda.com
>http://search.starware.com
>
>Other Repositories
>==================
>ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl (last known mirror of the older
> SimTel.Coast.Net collection)
>http://www.jumbo.com
>http://garbo.uwasa.fi
>
>There's one site I haven't exhausted and you may want to check out:
>http://www.ftpsearchengines.com
>It has links to a number of file search engines (some of which are
>listed above as ones I tried)
>
>One of the engines there that I haven't tried is an Archieplex, which
>is a WWW front end to the older Archie file search engines. Many
>(hopefully not all) of the Archie servers no longer exist, so be
>prepared to get a bunch of "server not found" errors. You might also
>want to try Googling "Archieplex" to try from another one. Every now
>and then they can be good for finding an old file not found anywhere
>else.
>
>I suspect that the file may be out there in some cobweb-ridden part
>of the Internet, possibly on an abandoned simtel.net mirror (or a
>one-time copy) that's no longer part of the mirror network and thus
>the file was never deleted. Or you could nose around at some of the
>present and past mirrors of the simtel.net collection to see if a
>copy's there.
>
>You might want to try contacting a human at Simtel.Net and ask 1)
>when viewlfn.zip was removed from the repository and 2) if by chance
>they archive files that have been removed from the repository. If the
>latter turns out to be true and you beg, plead and grovel nicely
>enough :), they might dig it out for you. With the former
>information, you could look for copies of the Walnut Creek
>CD-ROM Simtel collection prior to that date (I tried the website
>address of http://www.cdrom.com without success in connecting--it
>appears that they were bought out by Digital River, but their main
>website has no links to an online store, so I can only suggest you
>email them from the contact link at http://www.digitalriver.com and
>see what happened to that part of their operation).
>
>Wish I could have turned up something for you! Plus I'd kinda like to
>have a copy as well.
>
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