RE: Path name limits

Thanks for the reply.

    Hmm well breakin everything isnt really what I want to do :) I have
found the *nix fileutils for dos on djgpp page, yeah, so I will try that.
LFN isnt a problem anymore, we just zip up the problem directories now and
then add entries in to the unattened file unzip them. We use a central
cleanup.bat, its run once windows is installed and has done its last reboot.
So we have a work around for that. Is there some developer docs about the
freedos kernel and it functions? Or do I check the source out and read that?
Will post about how well symlinks work if people are interested.

> Hi, as far as I know, you can nest as many directories as you want
> as long as the path stays shorter than ?? characters (the kernel people
> will tell you what number ?? is). But changing the limit to 70 bytes or
> more will break compatibility of some kernel functions. You can use
> symlinks instead of renaming if you are talking about drives imported
> from the network.
> The problem is that while "LFNTOOLS" can access drives with long file-
> names directly and "DOSLFN" / "LFNDOS" supply drivers for LFN-aware
> DOS/Windows programs, there are no drivers
> that would enable LongFileNames on network drives yet.
>
> Eric

Cheers
Mike

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