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Call for testers: UPXINFO version 04-AUG-2008 (Miscellaneous)

posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 06.08.2008, 09:25

> > > planning on migrating URLs anytime soon? Didn't think so. :-P
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand.
>
> Is your site changing addresses anytime soon? I hope not!

No.

> > UPXINFO was made for DOS, where SFNs always exist. :-D
>
> Yes, but at least two DOSes (RxDOS, ROM DOS) support LFNs natively, right?

Yes, but there still is a SFN for every LFN.

> > > a file to NTFS from some Linux distro recently, and while most modern
> > > distros support NTFS r/w fine, this one didn't create a SFN alias, so
> I
> > > had to ZIP/UNZIP it just to create one). And yes, I'm aware that TP55
> >
> > But I don't want to work around your buggy Linux. Why not use DOS? :-P
>
> That's not a bug.

Depends on your point of view. ;-)

> As mentioned, I think DJGPP's libs use int 21h,71A0h in various places. So
> I'd assume that's a good way. Take a look at
> IO95
> (written for C) if you want a second opinion.

Thanks for the URL! It's a pitty Steffen left FreeDOS.

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