Re: Ms-Dos FST

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Thanks for the explanation, Peter.
-Paul

"Peter Watson" <paw77@NOhotmailSPAM.com> wrote
>
> The problem is that the "long filenames" introduced in Windows 95 and/or
> Windows NT 4 are stored in directory entries with a combination of "type"
> bits that include the "volume label" bit. So older programs like the
MS-DOS
> FST see a long filename and try to process it as a volume label. If you're
> lucky, you'll just see junk in the directory display. If you're unlucky,
> it's nothing that a reboot won't fix!  :-)
>
> The workaround is to always give a MS-DOS disk a volume name when you
format
> it. (It's probably not a bad idea in any case!) This means that the volume
> name is always found before any "long filename" directory entries.
>
> Of course, this still doesn't allow you to *see* the long filenames, and
it
> doesn't solve the problem of handling disks with partition maps (like Zip
> disks). And it certainly doesn't allow you to write to the disks! For all
> that you need MUG!, or the original MS-DOS Utilities.  ;-)
>