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Writing CD's in DOS with LFN
Name: Sonny Date: October 17, 2002 at 08:27:12 Pacific OS: boot floppy CPU/Ram: n/a
Comment:
Fist before everyone screams at me, as far as I know it is impossible to "write" cd's from dos with long file names.
But I have succesfully used lfndos along with pkzip to create zip files in dos that preserve the long file names and directory structure.
lfndos.exe is available at http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/lsmtable.cgi?dir=util
I also maneged to get all the necessary files on a floppy.
Name: Old Jake Date: October 17, 2002 at 09:00:43 Pacific
Reply:
Are you saying you cannot write a zipfile containing LFNs to an ISO CD?
If you can, is it an acceptable solution? It would be for me: I'd probably make an HTML index page as the front end.
Get in touch if you'd like a copy of Renamer (6kB) which will make a file listing and restore the LFNs when the files are transferred back to a WIn32 system.
There's also FileCopy from Fujitsu hard drive installation utilities, which will copy LFNs and directory structures, but not to CD :-( It could be useful for setting things up ready for zipping.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sonny Date: October 17, 2002 at 09:32:12 Pacific
Reply:
Yes you can write a zip file to an image that preserves the LFN
What I'm saying is that there is no need to use a renaming util as the lfndos prog allows me to create a zip file that keeps the long file names aswell as long directory names and the directory structure. You then just create an image of these zip files and write in 16bit. the long file names are recreated when you unzip from the cd
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Response Number 3
Name: Hal Date: October 18, 2002 at 02:19:37 Pacific
Reply:
PKZIP 2.5 has built in LFN Support!
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Response Number 4
Name: Sonny Date: October 18, 2002 at 05:16:43 Pacific
Reply:
Only under win32 Hal try it in true dos
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Response Number 5
Name: Hal Date: October 18, 2002 at 09:07:13 Pacific
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Yes I see what you mean! I compress all my files while still in Win32...So this is not a problem for me...
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Response Number 6
Name: Sonny Date: October 18, 2002 at 12:00:23 Pacific
Reply:
Use lfndos,loaded from the autoexec file and you can do the same from 16bit dos. It works
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