Re: Commercial use of FreeDOS / BETA status and missing features

Paul Case <[email protected]> Sat, 09 Nov 2002 14:56:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Aitor Santamaria Merino wrote:

>> Personal opinion is FreeCOM does not need to have LFN support ... even
>> DOS under Win 9x does not support this and names with spaces would break
>> batch files.
>>
> What do you mean? I open MS-COMMAND.COM under Win9X, and I see LFN 
> listings. I can run LFNs whenever I put them into quotes...
> C:\>"MY BIG PROGRAM WITH SPACES"
> For the contrary, I believe that it would be good if FreeCOM would 
> have this, at least in DIR (although I don't see this as prioritary). 


You can see LFN listings when in a DOS box, but not in plain DOS mode 
for Win9x (I know this very well, as I use both quite regularly).