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DOS & LFN (Miscellaneous)

posted by bretjohn  , Rio Rancho, NM, 15.12.2022, 20:54

> PTS-DOS 7.0, RxDOS, IBM PC-DOS 7.1, DR-DOS 7.02.

I'm not sure this is correct. I don't think any of these (except maybe RxDOS) have LFN built into the kernel. I think this may be confusing LFN with FAT32.

PTS-DOS: I have PTS-DOS 2000 installed and it does not support LFN. I've tried installing PTS-DOS 32 and could never get it to work. It's possible that PTS-DOS 7 or 32 would support LFN in the kernel, but I rather doubt it.

RxDOS: RxDOS still considers itself "unstable" so I've never installed it. I suspect this one might support LFN in the kernel, but don't know for sure.

PC-DOS: I have several versions of PC-DOS installed, including 7.10, and none of them support LFN in the kernel.

DR-DOS: I don't have version 7.02 installed, but do have both 7.03 and 8.0 installed an neither of them support LFN in the kernel.

Even MS-DOS 7.10 ("DOS 98") doesn't support LFN in the DOS kernel -- the LFN drivers are actually built into Windows instead of DOS so you must be running in a DOS Box underneath Windows to get LFN support.

Complete thread:

• DOS & LFN - glennmcc, 12.12.2022, 02:51
  • DOS & LFN - Rugxulo, 12.12.2022, 03:11
  • DOS & LFN - Oso2k, 12.12.2022, 03:27
    • DOS & LFN - glennmcc, 12.12.2022, 05:02
    • DOS & LFN - RayeR, 15.12.2022, 15:43
    • DOS & LFN - bretjohn, 15.12.2022, 20:54
      • DOS & LFN - ecm, 15.12.2022, 21:53
  • DOS & LFN - kerravon, 12.12.2022, 03:29