Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

2019-05-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 7:38 PM Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > > So I create a zip archive of my Win2k C drive on say an external > drive's partition from FreeDOS, boot into 2000, and unzip the file on > the external from 2000? I think zip and unzip in freedos require that > I install

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

2019-05-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 3:38 PM Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > > Before Windows 2000, even in Windows 95, FAT32 was introduced with > supported for longer filenames than the 8.3 limit of Dos 6.22. FAT32 debuted in something like Win95 OSR2 or whatever. I'm no expert, but Win95 had

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

2019-05-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > I'd prefer to leave Linux out of this as Linux may not boot > on an Agilent analyzer because of the proprietary > Intel video card and proprietary touchscreen. I think it will boot and it will support a normal VGA screen plugged into the VGA connector at the backside of your device. It

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 01:52 +0200, Pär Moberg wrote: > If I remember correctly, Windows 2000 install files are 8.3 so long > file name support is not required. > And for lfn files I would either transfer them over the network or > use zip files to contain the lfn. I use info-zip punzip when I

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

2019-05-08 Thread Pär Moberg
If I remember correctly, Windows 2000 install files are 8.3 so long file name support is not required. And for lfn files I would either transfer them over the network or use zip files to contain the lfn. I use info-zip punzip when I fiddle with Windows 2000. I remember in school that we installed

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

2019-05-08 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/8/2019 3:30 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: Does Freedos have the ability to read long filenames and write long filenames or is Microsoft's patent an issue? You would need the DOSLFN program to support long file names. And the programs you are using need to be able to support

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 15:21 -0700, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 5/8/2019 1:37 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > > Before Windows 2000, even in Windows 95, FAT32 was introduced with > > supported for longer filenames than the 8.3 limit of Dos 6.22. > > Sorry, but this not correct. FAT32 doesn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

2019-05-08 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/8/2019 1:37 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: Before Windows 2000, even in Windows 95, FAT32 was introduced with supported for longer filenames than the 8.3 limit of Dos 6.22. Sorry, but this not correct. FAT32 doesn't know anything about long file names. Long file names where

[Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
Before Windows 2000, even in Windows 95, FAT32 was introduced with supported for longer filenames than the 8.3 limit of Dos 6.22. Fast forward to Freedos 1.2 and the need to use freedos to copy a Windows 2000 installation to an external hard drive. I have the Panasonic usb driver and another sys