c64 - its back and its badass!

[LoadWB]

No 98 I don't believe fat hd supports long file names from the getgo...

Windows 95 started the support for long file names.  98 absolutely supports LFN.

[LoadWB]

Windows 95/98/Me supported long file names in explorer but not in DOS. They made it work by implementing a metadata field and DOS file names were truncated to FILENA~1.EXT

In the industry we refer to this as a 'hack'.

Only partially true.

[LoadWB]

There's no special trick to what I demonstrated.  Windows 95 and up handle LFN right out of the box.  Now, the APPLICATION may not support LFN, in which case you would need to correct the file structure to reflect that.

[LoadWB]

Just another reason to hate microshaft... Can't even be a file server for a 20 year old c64 correctly!

Tons of others make it work... I don't think this is a Microsoft problem :razz:

[LoadWB]

Doesn't windows 98 only support LFN in certain situations? ie if a program is set to run in DOS mode then when you double click it from win98 it runs a full screen DOS window and shows the long filenames (and also loads a basic mouse drive too), as  opposed to dropping out of windows into DOS which can only show the truncated filenames? I know it works on the DOS shell program when run inside windows...can the software not be run from the DOS shell CLI whilst win98 is running?

This.  If you restart in DOS mode, LFNs are not recognized.  So long as you're running the program from within Windows, LFNs are supported.

[LoadWB]

I don't have a copy of win98se, not sure but I think this is original win98. I am aware of the lfn stuff. I think the problem is I need to install that and recopy the files with that lfn hack. I'm going to give that a go tonight...

START:Run... "winver" (no quotes) will tell you very quickly what OS you're running.