Re: [Freedos-user] LFN support?

2004-02-07 Thread maintainer freedospg
Hi, I do worry LFN is the user's heaven, the programmer's hell. regards, BAHCL --- Aitor_Santamar_Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi John, John Price escribi#65533;: I've seen some mention of LFN support in FreeDOS. I wonder exactly how much support we are talking about... Is it

[Freedos-user] re: LFN support?

2004-02-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, as far as I know, only Windows-aware programs generally notice it at all if you have LFN support active. Normally you need a TSR like LFNDOS or DOSLFN to provide LFN support, but there was a project to merge that into a special kernel at some time. FreeCOM does not really do much with LFN.

Re: [Freedos-user] xdosemu and Star Trek: A Final Unity

2004-02-07 Thread Sam Halliday
Eric Auer wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: i realised the other day that i had a Star Trek game lying around from ages ago and i was wondering if i could get it to play on one of the MS-DOS emulators for GNU/Linux. snip it crashed after several seconds [...] and outputted this to the screen:

Re: [Freedos-user] xdosemu and Star Trek: A Final Unity

2004-02-07 Thread Sam Halliday
Sam Halliday wrote: excellent! the game plays (with no sound) if i set Audio=none in the game's config file... that gives me good hope! correction.. got sound working under the game!! turns out the game has SB16 bugs in it, and by telling it to use the SB8 drivers, everything works as planned

Re: [Freedos-user] xdosemu and Star Trek: A Final Unity

2004-02-07 Thread Sam Halliday
Sam Halliday wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: excellent! the game plays (with no sound) if i set Audio=none in the game's config file... that gives me good hope! correction.. got sound working under the game!! ok, but now i have another problem... which seems to be memory related. sometimes, the

Re: [Freedos-user] re: LFN support?

2004-02-07 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Eric Auer escribió: Hi, as far as I know, only Windows-aware programs generally notice it at all if you have LFN support active. Well, not always. I've seen several fancy editors, and ALL the programs made in FreePascal can also notice this, because LFN is supported when found automatically...

[Freedos-user] thanks for a tip about LFN support

2004-02-07 Thread maintainer freedospg
--- Steve Nickolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Sun, 8 Feb 2004 2:05am +0800, maintainer freedospg wrote: Hi, I don't like LFN personally, I know M$ LFN allows 128 characters for file names and directory names. I may die if have to type long path names and long file name to test PG in