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

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 09:06, Aitor Santamaria Merino wrote:
> > 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 :)

Technically you are correct, Win9x command com does fully support LFN.

But in batch files I believe FOR and other things use the 8.3 format
name, unless you specifically execute a command to enable long names. 
This was done to maximize compatibility with old DOS batch files and 3rd
party utilities that people converting from 6.22/Win3.1 to Win95 would
have.  This was my main concern is that FreeCOM support such behavior as
part of also supporting LFN.

Regards,
Paul