Re: [Freedos-user] Feelings on lfn

2022-11-08 Thread userbeitrag
On Nov 8 2022, 17:40, Ralf Quint wrote: On 11/8/2022 2:55 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: On Nov 8, 2022, 01:58, Ralf Quint wrote: But I only use this feature sparingly, as there are a lot of older software that can't handle them. And the mapping to some xyz~1.abc is actually losing two

Re: [Freedos-user] Feelings on lfn

2022-11-08 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Ralf, >> On Linux, you can mount a FAT filesystem with the mount option >> "nonumtail", where you don't get the trailing "~1" at the end when it is >> still possible, e.g. when there are no other files with the same name. > > How is any Linux feature possibly helping me with running an

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS was dead...

2022-11-08 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hi, Ok sorry, got the reply later, and also the opinion I would vote for. Aitor On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 05:13, Jon Brase wrote: > >Apr 14, 2021 2:00:05 PM Ralf Quint : > > >And I stand by my comments that none of Windows 9x/ME is "running on > DOS". I don't have the time right now to provide

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS was dead...

2022-11-08 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hi Ralf, On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 19:11, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 4/14/2021 8:54 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > > > >> Reality is, Windows 95 dos and Windows 98SE DOS is not really dos per > se > > Wrong. > Actually, in that part, Michael was correct. And as people like you seem > to pushing that old

Re: [Freedos-user] Feelings on lfn

2022-11-08 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/8/2022 2:55 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: On Nov 8, 2022, 01:58, Ralf Quint wrote: But I only use this feature sparingly, as there are a lot of older software that can't handle them. And the mapping to some xyz~1.abc is actually losing two significant characters of those 8 available

Re: [Freedos-user] Feelings on lfn

2022-11-08 Thread userbeitrag
On Nov 8, 2022, 01:58, Ralf Quint wrote: But I only use this feature sparingly, as there are a lot of older software that can't handle them. And the mapping to some xyz~1.abc is actually losing two significant characters of those 8 available for generally usable filenames. On Linux, you can