On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Nick Humphries wrote: > >Would it be likely to cause a problem if future versions of SimCoupe were > >to require long filename support in the hose operating system?
s/hose/host > I thought DOS systems viewed long file names as wibble~1.zip or whatever? If > so, > then so long as the files required in the emulator program itself are in 8.3 > format, the sight of ~1 would be ugly, but the file would still be useable. Yes, although I don't know how well this particular system would cope with a filename containing two dots, like wibble.dsk.gz Anyway I thought in DOS mode under Win95 and Win98 you could use long filenames transparently - or maybe that was only in NT? I don't use very Windows much, you can probably tell... Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- My other -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org -- .sig is a -- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge -- PDF file --
