If anyone's interested, at this address: http://odi.webjump.com you can get LFN stuff. For example "lcopy" which seems very good for cloning drives and can be run from a dos bootdisk. I cloned a win98 drive using "lcopy C:\* D: /a/s" then sys'ed the drive, put it in as "C" and it booted up and was perfect! My desktop icons hadn't even moved!

That LFN.exe or LFN.com is not much good. You can see long filenames in DOS, but you still need windows to copy them without truncating them. However, I have never tried Lcopy.

Lcopy will preserve long filenames in dos. It's beautiful! At his website Odi has a description of how it works. Try it, there's nothing to lose. Lcopy is in a LFN zip package at his website.

Well I must admit I was impressed with the LFN tools that you alluded to. Heck I even compressed them all, put them on a floppy, and disabled the internal DOS equivalents in COMMAND.com and I have LFN support on a floppy. It's tres cool! I have tried both LFNDOS.exe and DOSLFN.exe and both have left me dissapointed. The only thing I don't like about the LFNTOOLS is that after you CD to a LFN directory it still truncates it at the prompt, and I have to enclose the directory name in quotes. Say I have a directory called: Long File Name Test to Change Directory to it I have to type: cd "Long File Name Test" then the prompt appears as: A:\Long~1\ Which isn't too bad but I guess I'm a little spoiled. At any rate I like the way it works. It seems pretty stable. ~Michael