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From: collins@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Skip Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Long filenames in msdos kermit?
Date: 4 Oct 97 18:04:51 GMT
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Joe Doupnik writes:
>> No, and no. MS-DOS Kermit is a DOS program. If you want to access to the
>> special features of OS/2 (or Windows 95 or NT), you need native 32-bit
>> software for those platforms:
>>
>> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
>>
> I might add: the reason is DOS does not reveal those long names
>via regular DOS calls. Thus this is not the fault of MSK.
> Joe D.
I am aware of the limitations of MSDOS regarding filenames. But there
exist ways of circumventing this OS limitation. Many 16 bit DOS programs
are compiled so that they can access the LFN support of the underlying
file system. I guess my question is then why does Frank say I "need native
32-bit software for those platforms"? Because it is too much trouble to
retrofit a perfectly functional, stable piece of software such as mskermit
with a dubious hack to get a superfluous feature such as LFN support? I
can understand that. Or is it because adding that feature to mskermit,
while perhaps not all that difficult to do, would eliminate one of the
best reasons for users to pay for K95? I can understand that too. Or is
there another reason I am missing?
By the way, does anyone have any experience compiling C kermit with djgpp
or the Cygnus GNU-Win32 tools?
Skip Collins