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Well...I am afraid I must do something rather sorted here and change my 
position on the DOS drives problem.  Here is how I currently stand.

Places Where DOS Drives work fine, but WITHOUT LONG FILE NAMES
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DOS 6.22
Win95 (F8 at Boot) Command Prompt Only (DOS 7)
Win95 (F8 at Boot) Safe Mode Command Prompt (DOS 7)
Win95 Shut Down Computer - Restart computer in DOS mode

Places where DOS drives take an extreamly long time to open, BUT HAVE LFN's
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Win95 DOS BOX (obviously in full screen mode)


I find these results of my testing to be perplexing.  First, I tested my 
pervious reported results twice (in the mode of Restart computer in DOS 
mose, and in Comand prompt only mode) and both times I received long file 
names and an extreamly long wait.

Now, In re-testing, I find that I only have Long file names when running the 
windows 95 GUI and executor in a dos box and that I no longer have the 
extended wait in any other mode.

I did not find any correlation between modem/PPP use and the extended wait.  
There may be a small (1 minute or less) time difference that I have not 
accounted for since I did not time the events.  I have an 850MB IDE Hard 
Drive if size matters :)

I was sure of my previous results.  What might I have changed this time 
and/or are long file names supposed to work outside of the win95 GUI?  If 
they don't, why not?  It is still the same OS, right?

Mat, I would stil like to try the executor with disabled long file names 
support.

-Josh