DOSBox-X intends to support FreeDOS well. For example, DOSBox-X includes an
increasing number of DOS commands from FreeDOS, such as APPEND, CHKDSK, COMP,
DEBUG, DEFRAG, DISKCOPY, FC, FDISK, FORMAT, MEM, MOVE, SORT, SYS, PRINT, XCOPY,
and more as of the latest version. They are well-supported in
I am a developer of DOSBox-X so let me try to explain more about its DBCS
support. DOSBox-X (as of current version 0.83.20) supports DBCS systems in
different ways, including the following:
1. TrueType font support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean code pages.
2. Chinese/Japanese/Korean DOS/V modes
Hi!
Maybe interesting for you: Announcements seen on BTTR recently.
There is a new Lynx 2.9.0dev.10 for DOS. The 8.3 filenames of
the downloads are horrible, you would never google for l290d10b
when searching for LYNX if you ask me...
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=18555
> LFN are for Unix programs (DJGPP). DOS programs, like dir, do not know
> about them.
FreeDOS command has support for LFN dir since ~15 years.
use
DIR /LFN
for this, or
set DIRCMD=/LFN
the most recent command has LFN support almost everywhere, like in
COPY, DEL, redirection and more
On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:24:07 +0100
Tomas By wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 14:18:44 +0100, Joseph Norton wrote:
> LFN are for Unix programs (DJGPP). DOS programs, like dir, do not know
> about them.
Not really. Some DOS programs such as the doszip file manager have
support for the LFN API as well
On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 14:18:44 +0100, Joseph Norton wrote:
> What are the considerations in using FreeDOS with LFN support?
`Don't bother unless you need it' ?
It is not something that requires deep thought and mature
judgement. There are no downsides that have to be carefully weighed
against the
