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

Paul Case wrote:

> 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). 
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> 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). 

Yes, this is because under V86 mode (when you run a DOS BOX) VFAT (I 
think) offers you LFN, but plain real mode DOS doesn't. But COMMAND.COM 
is the same file in both cases: it's just that LFN is not used whenever 
it is not detected :)
Just as FreeCOM may do. I have tried DOSLFN (doesn't seem to cause 
problems), which provides LFN under plain DOS. If one uses this with 
FreeDOS, and if COMMAND provided support for LFN (when found), then 
you'd be able to do this.
Anyway, I think there's some sort of support for quotes in FreeCOM, am I 
wrong? (Steffen? I can't find references in the doc at Sourceforge)

Aitor