Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 2000 fat32 and freedos...

2019-05-22 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 1:56 AM Tom Ehlert wrote: > > FreeDOS began as an effort to create an open source version of 16 bit > > DOS, compatible with what Microsoft issued. It largely succeeded in > > that effort. > exactly. > > Providing the support you want is serious system level

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 2000 fat32 and freedos...

2019-05-21 Thread Tom Ehlert
> The two aren't currently compatible. Any chance of lfndos getting > the bugs ironed out? lfndos is known to be buggy. use doslfn http://sta.c64.org/dosprg/doslfn.zip instead. Tom ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 2000 fat32 and freedos...

2019-05-21 Thread Tom Ehlert
> FreeDOS began as an effort to create an open source version of 16 bit > DOS, compatible with what Microsoft issued. It largely succeeded in > that effort. exactly. > Providing the support you want is serious system level programming. > The folks who *can* do that get *paid* for it. Tell me

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 2000 fat32 and freedos...

2019-05-21 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:28 PM Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > Just because Microsoft doesn't support dos anymore, does that mean that > the freedos community has to cut off support at the limits of what > Microsoft did? I for one would like full fat32 support and support > for at least

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 2000 fat32 and freedos...

2019-05-21 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 01:10 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > > The two aren't currently compatible. > > Which problems did you encounter in which context? Opcodes and hard crashing of a lfndos aware file manager something commander. I was trying to copy to a fat32 partition out on usb created

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 2000 fat32 and freedos...

2019-05-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > The two aren't currently compatible. Which problems did you encounter in which context? Can you specify error messages and their wording? Can you give instructions for reproducing the problems? > Any chance of lfndos getting the bugs ironed out? If LFNDOS is not what you want, you

[Freedos-user] Windows 2000 fat32 and freedos...

2019-05-21 Thread michael
The two aren't currently compatible. Any chance of lfndos getting the bugs ironed out? If I could boot Linux instead, I could do backup and restore no problem as Linux has no difficulty with long filenames on a fat32 partition. How is it that Linux can handle Windows 2000 Fat32 and freedos