[Question] - How to enable long filenames and auto-complete off dos bo

[davidh]

Is there a way to enable long filenames, command history and auto-complete when using a dos bootable disk?

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Edited January 3, 2006 by Zxian

[InTheWayBoy]

I think any bootdisk made since Win98 has LFN support. If not, there has to be tools for it, but I'm not aware of one. For command history and auto-complete I've always used DOSKEY, which you can just slip into your AUTOEXEC.BAT or any other script.

[LLXX]

I'm assuming your drives are FAT32 or your boot disk contains an NTFS filesystem driver, otherwise it's pointless to boot from a DOS disk to e.g. repair an XP installation.

LFNs are not supported by the standard DOS kernel for bootdisks (98se v4.10.2222A/MS-DOS v7.10), you need LFNDOS or similar utilities to manipulate them.

Auto-complete? Include DOSKEY utility on the disk.

[davidh]

Im booting off a xp bootable disk with doskey on it, and i get the following error when i try to run doskey:

"This program cannot be run in DOS mode"

[LLXX]

You're using the wrong DOSKEY. You're using the one that is used in protectedmode command prompt. What you need is the realmode TSR - get it from a win98 or winME disk.

What version of kernel are you using? Use VER command to find out. It's probably a 4.10.2222A.

[davidh]

There we go, doskey.COM off a win98 machine works. the doskey.EXE off xp didnt.

[davidh]

http://home.comcast.net/~paulhoule/doskey/ edited version of doskey (dos only). Smaller than the original doskey and has support for autocomplete via the tab key (not just autocomplete for previously used commands as with the original doskey)

- this version of doskey is also included in barts cd boot disk http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/cdrom/

Edited January 3, 2006 by davidh