LFN Support... (Page 1 of 2)

Excellent! One of the most interesting features if you have many files.

Thanks

Great News!  Thank you !!!!!

Neat!

So... will a new version of esxDOS be expected under our Christmas Tree this year?

Please, update status. Many people like got the the new picodivsd hoping ths shoul be fixed soon!!

Is there any roadmap ongoing or just tweaked screens to capure our attention?

If there is such beta, can be released to the community?

If development is stopped or delayed forever, have you corsidered to release ESXDOS source code so programmers can help to end this unfinished project?

Thanks in advance, hope to hear from you soon!!

Hi to everyone,

To put a stop to the rumours - there is no fully working version with LFN support - the code as it is has LFN-capable readdir (hence the screenshots above), but doesn't have LFN-capable open, so it's not useable yet. It will be ready when it's ready

Regards

Hi baze,

Sorry for the delay but I was abroad. Please send me an e-mail (I think you already have my address) - I'm not working on LFN code right now but it will come soon enough.

Regards,
lordcoxis

Great work, Miguel! You've achieved fantastic results so far, with esxDOS being chosen as the default firmware for ZX Spectrum Next's DivMMC!
Please make LFN support, the whole Next community relies on you

This is kinda exciting news! :-)

I think READONLY LFN (as readdir) would be enough to make most people satisfied. Does readdir not deliver the short name also to pass this to open? (this maybe a dump question from me).

Main reason for no LFN-support maybe the lack of memory I think?!

Even "no complete" LFN-support would be sufficient, e.g. support for 31 or 32 chars-long filenames is much better than 8.3 short names.

Isn't the LFN readonly not in any form linked/gotten from the same source the 8.3 file name is gotten from? You could even look back at the source and open from there, right? (it certainly is very hack-y and doesn't make for nice code, but if it works it works).
And the 255 bytes system also would work fine I imagine.
Or if you really can only open from a 8.3 file structure name, the 8.3 name only coming up with cursor over the name. And otherwise giving the read only name.

Really though, the lack of LFN really hinders me in using esxdos because nearly all files aren't in a 8.3 file system. And because the 8.3 files system on modern PC's have gone the way of the dinosaurs for a while now, it makes it all really hard to use with any volume of files as almost no files are natively in the 8.3 file format. (unless you really want to rename all files)