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- Error reading drive 17 sector 0 - 0!(0) by Carlos 17.11.04
I am getting the following error when using lcopy:
Error reading drive 17 sector 0 - 0!(0)
Could not read BPB!(16)
Do you know what this means? - General Examples of syntax? by Dave 15.11.04
can anyone tell me where I can get hold of examples of what you can do with LFN Tools e.g LCOPY etc
Regards
Dave- Re: General Examples of syntax? by Odi 15.11.04
> can anyone tell me where I can get hold of examples of what you can do with LFN Tools e.g LCOPY etc
> Regards
> Dave
Check out the readme file:
http://www.odi.ch/prog/lfn/readme.txt- Re: General Examples of syntax? by Dave 15.11.04
> > can anyone tell me where I can get hold of examples of what you can do with LFN Tools e.g LCOPY etc
> > Regards
> > Dave
>
> Check out the readme file:
>
> http://www.odi.ch/prog/lfn/readme.txt
No sorry, i didn't mean that, I've already looked at that thanks. I
mean general examples e.g say you wanted for example to copy the
windows folder without any files therein. How would you write the line
of instruction. This is because, essentially I am not very good with
DOS.- Re: General Examples of syntax? by Odi 15.11.04
> No sorry, i didn't mean that, I've already looked at that thanks.
I mean general examples e.g say you wanted for example to copy the
windows folder without any files therein. How would you write the line
of instruction.
To copy the Windows directory structure without any files, use:
LCOPY C:\WINDOWS D:\SOMEWHERE /S /A
To copy also files, use:
LCOPY C:\WINDOWS\* D:\SOMEWHERE /S /A
> This is because, essentially I am not very good with DOS.
Well, if you start messing around with the file system you better get very very good "at DOS"!- Re: General Examples of syntax? by Dave 15.11.04
> > No sorry, i didn't mean that, I've already looked at that
thanks. I mean general examples e.g say you wanted for example to copy
the windows folder without any files therein. How would you write the
line of instruction.
>
> To copy the Windows directory structure without any files, use:
>
> LCOPY C:\WINDOWS D:\SOMEWHERE /S /A
>
> To copy also files, use:
>
> LCOPY C:\WINDOWS\* D:\SOMEWHERE /S /A
>
>
> > This is because, essentially I am not very good with DOS.
>
> Well, if you start messing around with the file system you better get very very good "at DOS"!
POINT TAKEN! Many thanks for the info. I have been brought up on XP,
Boot up and away you go!, in a word spoilt & ignorant! I would also
like thank you for your prompt response to my questions also. I have
also constructed a 911 CD with drive image on and have incremental
backups (tried & tested) for reinstalls should need arise.
I would like to make a suggestion that would help Lamers like me, that
general examples like those that have been very kindly forwarded to me
could be posted, say beginners intermediate & advanced. I know that
kind of interactive help would be a great resource to gain confidence
in what is an excellent set of tools. I will not clutter up your forum
any longer with postings but just to say kind regards & all the
best!
Dave- Re: General Examples of syntax? by Dave 18.11.04
> > > No sorry, i didn't mean that, I've already looked at
that thanks. I mean general examples e.g say you wanted for example to
copy the windows folder without any files therein. How would you write
the line of instruction.
> >
> > To copy the Windows directory structure without any files, use:
> >
> > LCOPY C:\WINDOWS D:\SOMEWHERE /S /A
> >
> > To copy also files, use:
> >
> > LCOPY C:\WINDOWS\* D:\SOMEWHERE /S /A
> >
> >
> > > This is because, essentially I am not very good with DOS.
> >
> > Well, if you start messing around with the file system you better get very very good "at DOS"!
>
> POINT TAKEN! Many thanks for the info. I have been brought up on
XP, Boot up and away you go!, in a word spoilt & ignorant! I would
also like thank you for your prompt response to my questions also. I
have also constructed a 911 CD with drive image on and have incremental
backups (tried & tested) for reinstalls should need arise.
>
> I would like to make a suggestion that would help Lamers like me,
that general examples like those that have been very kindly forwarded
to me could be posted, say beginners intermediate & advanced. I
know that kind of interactive help would be a great resource to gain
confidence in what is an excellent set of tools. I will not clutter up
your forum any longer with postings but just to say kind regards &
all the best!
> Dave
Sorry I'm back again! went away and tried the
LCOPY.EXE C:\WINDOWS D:\WINDOWS /S /A (& then tried)
LCD.EXE D:\Windows
LREN.EXE D:\Windows Winmini
LCOPY.EXE D:\Winmini C:\ A/ /S (Is this right?)
to copy the folders only and it copied everything, it also also copied
the rest os the folders My Docs, Program files etc. What I would like
to do is copy the windows only folder to D:\ rename it to Winmini and
then copy it back to the C:\PTN. the only other way I can think of is
to build the Winmini folder using LMD.EXE but some of the folders are
in some cases many DIR's deep & there is loads of em, very time
consuming. How would you do this?
Regards
Dave
- LFN - Dateien wiederherstellen... Geht das? by Thomas 12.10.04
Wir haben ein grosses Problem! Nach einem Servercrash haben wir
festgestellt, dass sich das Backup-Programm im Juli selbst auf 8.3
zurückgestellt hat. Nun mussten wir nach einem kompletten Datenverlust
das Backup zurückholen.
Wir haben ein altes Backup vom Juli, auf dem noch die LFN-Dateien sind,
also ist alles dazwischen 8.3. Wenn ich nun eine Datei vom Juni, die
8.3 ist, zurückschiebe reklamiert Windows, die Datei sei schon
vorhanden. Also gehe ich davon aus, dass irgendwo die Information noch
vorhanden ist?!
Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, oder ein Programm welches die 8.3 Dateien in LFN umzuwandeln kann?
Herzlichen Dank für Eure Hilfe!!!
Gruss Thomas - Sorting files in a directory in Windows 2000 by Ahmed 06.10.04
Can any one have the idea, how different files can be arranged (sorted)
in date,name,size order in Windows-2000 or Windows-XP as lfnsort
utility used to do in Windows-95. Can anyone knows any utility of
software like that. The same task was done in PC-Tools deluxe when
FAT-16 was used under DOS 6.XX or DOS 5.x.
Thanks. - LDIR switch to show directories only ? Possible ? by Ron Clarke 29.09.04
Hi Folks,
Is there, or is there likely to be, a switch for LDIR
that will list ONLY directory names, as there is in MS-DOS'
DIR command ?
Regards,
Ron - Lcopy memory requirements by Gary Potwin 27.06.04
Before anything else, thanks to Odi for creating these extremely useful
tools. How much memory does Lcopy need to function, and what kind? In
the readme, I saw that without the cache, it needs about 128K: what
does it need with the cache? Since using the cache requires both himem
and emm386, it appears that lcopy uses only expanded memory, as opposed
to extended memory. Is this correct? Thanks in advance. - lmd: not enough memory cache (4) by hsu 02.06.04
Under DOS a C program (size approx. 100kb) should create a directory by
using lmd. The path of the directory has a size greater than 64 byes.
When creating directories with a very large path length lmd gives the message "not enough memory cache (4)".
Calling lmd directly from the command line, lmd works fine.
All recommendations about himem and emm386 have no effect.
Where can be the problem ? - Change codepage by Max 01.06.04
I use Hiren's.BootCD.6.0 ( Universal TCP/IP Network 4.80
MSDOS Network Client to connect via TCP/IP to a Microsoft based)
Can I change codepage to 866 after boot from command line?
mode con codepage prepare=((866)B:\ega3.cpi)
~this operation not support (my bad translate )
mode con codepage select=866
~this operation ... - lmd: Nicht genügend Speicher für Cache (4) by hsu 31.05.04
Unter DOS soll aus einem C-Programm (ca. 100kB groß) mit Hilfe von lmd
ein Verzeichnis angelegt werden, dessen Pfadangabe > 64 Bytes ist.
Bei sehr langen Pfadangaben meldet lmd "Nicht genügend Speicher für Cache (4)".
Beim direkten Aufruf von lmd klappt das Anlegen des Verzeichnisses.
Alle Empfehlungen auf himem und emm386 haben das Problem nicht lösen können.
Wo liegt das Problem ? - Help! by Gab 29.03.04
I have noticed when LCOPY'ing mp3's , the sample rate changes to 48000.
Which it should be 44000 . How do you fix this? The mp3's skip. please
help.
Gab- Re: Help! by Odi 29.03.04
This should not happen! LFN Tools do not modify the contents of the
file. I guess not only the sample rate changed, but your MP3 files are
severely damaged. How that happened I am unable to tell. You should
consider restoring your file system from the backup.
Please make sure that you always operate LFN Tools on a consistent file
system. If the file system is corrupt, LFN Tools will cause even more
damage to it. Also past reports suggest that LFN Tools fail in rare
cases where the file system is even in a consistent state. However I
have no idea what could be the cause. I have never experienced such a
behaviour on my test systems.
Odi- Re: Help! by Gab 29.03.04
> This should not happen! LFN Tools do not modify the contents of
the file. I guess not only the sample rate changed, but your MP3 files
are severely damaged. How that happened I am unable to tell. You should
consider restoring your file system from the backup.
>
> Please make sure that you always operate LFN Tools on a consistent
file system. If the file system is corrupt, LFN Tools will cause even
more damage to it. Also past reports suggest that LFN Tools fail in
rare cases where the file system is even in a consistent state. However
I have no idea what could be the cause. I have never experienced such a
behaviour on my test systems.
>
> Odi
Welp the file system is not corrupt, although the excessive volume made
it inoperable. It is accessible in some cases. I was using EasyRecovery
from ontrack.com , and it got most of my mp3's back. But the only
problem was it did not support long file names. And some had the same
characters, even though in LFN format it didn't. So it would overwrite
some. But the mp3's came out all workable with the annoying shortnames.
Anyways I really don't know what the problem is in this case, but I'd
rather spend a few hours renaming mp3 files then having to re-download
10 gigs worth of music on a 56k modem. Thanks for your time anyway Odi.
Too bad it did not work correctly with my system. Good program anyway.
Gab
- Re: Help! by Gab 29.03.04
> I have noticed when LCOPY'ing mp3's , the sample rate changes to
48000. Which it should be 44000 . How do you fix this? The mp3's skip.
please help.
>
> Gab
Sorry, I meant it should be 44100 hz . How do one fix this? Because these mp3's skip, and there are like 5,000 worth of songs.
Gab
- error starting computer: missing file- hal.dll by Idrees 27.03.04
My computer won't load windows xp. says I've got missing hal.dll file.
I've managed to get the named file from elsewhere onto a floppy, now
what I really want to know is from dos, how can I copy the file from
the floppy to the system 32 folder in windows?- Re: error starting computer: missing file- hal.dll by Odi 29.03.04
Boot to DOS mode and insert the diskette / CD with the file into the
drive. Since the file does not have a long file name, you will not need
LFN Tools at all. You can just use plain old DOS commands. That is:
copy A:\hal.dll C:\winnt\system32
Assuming that the diskette is in drive A and Windows is installed on drive C in the winnt folder.
Cheers
Odi
- LCopy to more than 2 folder depth? by Shel 23.02.04
Either I'm doing something wrong, or LCopy doesn't copy to a folder
depth more than 2-3 deep. I can copy to X:AAA, or X:AAABBB. But I can't
seem to LCopy to X:AAABBBCCC or further.
Is this a limitation of LCopy, or it one of mine? 8-0
Shel- Re: LCopy to more than 2 folder depth? by Shel 24.02.04
> Either I'm doing something wrong, or LCopy doesn't copy to a
folder depth more than 2-3 deep. I can copy to X:AAA, or X:AAABBB. But
I can't seem to LCopy to X:AAABBBCCC or further. <
First... I guess this forum doesn't support the back-slashes that I entered in between AAA and BBB and CCC.
But I guess I solved my problem. It seems LCopy doesn't accept the
shortened file names with a tilde (I'll replace the back slash with a
dash):
LCopy textfile.txt X:-AAAAAA~1-BBBBBB~1-CCCCCC~1
Entering the full path with long file/folder names in quotes seems to work:
LCopy textfile.txt "X:-AAAA AAAA AAA-BB BBBB BBB-CCCC CCCCCCC CC"
I'm still interested in any other processes that can be used to
transfer files in DOS for one system to another and retain long file
names.
Thanks for any feedback,
Shel- Re: LCopy to more than 2 folder depth? by Odi 01.03.04
> It seems LCopy doesn't accept the shortened file names with a tilde
Uhm... I thought the documentation was very clear about that. LFN Tools
are all about *long* file names. The user interface does not deal with
short names at all.
BTW: I will get this damn PHP escaping fixed very soon.
- Codepage 720 by Zubair 17.02.04
What Is This Actually
I Was Using V1.54 It working Till Now
I Downloaded The New Version I Am Getting
"CodePage 720 Not Supported"
Will Be There A New Version For This- Re: Codepage 720 by Odi 21.02.04
> What Is This Actually
> I Was Using V1.54 It working Till Now
> I Downloaded The New Version I Am Getting
> "CodePage 720 Not Supported"
Newer versions of LFN Tools try to use the right character encoding for
your drive. The least you want on your hard drive is a character set
mess :-)
So LFN Tools check which character set you are using (mode con cp
commands in your autoexec). LFN Tools have support build in for some
widely used ones but not for all character sets. Especially asian and
all double byte charsets are completely unsupported unfortunately. All
supported character sets are compiled statically into the code. Because
of the memory limitations under DOS it is not possible to support but a
few character sets. Otherwise one would need to dynamically load the
support in at runtime. But this would require a rewrite of the
character set support code.
> > Will Be There A New Version For This
No. Development of LFN Tools has discontinued. If you would like CP 720
support you must first find somebody who is willing to continue to work
on LFN Tools. The code is all openly available in CVS on sf.net
Odi - Re: Codepage 720 by zubair 19.02.04
Please Sombody
- My Documents BackUp by Zubair 16.02.04
Hello I Am Wondering How To BackUp "My Documents" In Dos
Using Lcopy
I Tried Many None Still Works I Am Using Win98 But I Want To BackIt Up If My System Crashes.
I Want To Backup "My Documents" "Favorites" & "Desktop" So I Can Star By A Floppy And Start a Batch File To DO All Of This.
C:\My Documents
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop
C:\WINDOWS\Favorites
LCOPY C:\WINDOWS\desktop\* D:\backeuro\desk /A /S
LCOPY C:\WINDOWS\Favorites\* D:\backeuro\favo /A /S
For Mydocuments I Tries
LCOPY C:\mydocu~1\* D:\backeurodocu /A /S
LCOPY C:\my documents\* D:\backeuro\docu /A /S
LCOPY C:\mydocuments\* D:\backeuro\docu /A /S
LCOPY C:\"my documents"\* D:\backeuro\docu /A /S
LCOPY C:\"my documents" D:\backeurodocu /A /S
But None Worked One I Got Only Directory Structure Of C: But No Files
All Others Are Ok But Not "My Documents"
If Some One ALready Got This Please Reply To Me Zubair4148@yahoo.com- Re: My Documents BackUp by Odi 16.02.04
> > For Mydocuments I Tries
> > LCOPY C:mydocu~1* D:ackeurodocu /A /S
> LCOPY C:my documents* D:ackeurodocu /A /S
> LCOPY C:mydocuments* D:ackeurodocu /A /S
> LCOPY C:"my documents"* D:ackeurodocu /A /S
> LCOPY C:"my documents" D:ackeurodocu /A /S
> But None Worked One I Got Only Directory Structure Of C: But No Files
You need to pass the whole path in double quotes like so:
LCOPY "C:My Documents*" D:ackeurodocu /A /S
The double quote stuff is a feature of the DOS command line interpreter
(shell) and is used to group together parameters that contain spaces.
This has nothing to do with LFN tools really but rather how parameters
are processed and passed on to programs.- Thanks by Zubair 17.02.04
Thank You Very Much It Really Worked.
- Any Extration utility available?? if not, make one by Oxtie 07.02.04
I have *.RAR DOS SFx files any problem available that can extract these files in LONG format???- Re: Any Extration utility available?? if not, make one by (unknown) 08.02.04
Use UNRAR 3.x to extract *.RAR files under LFN-enabled MS-DOS 7.10,
then it will extract these files in LONG format. MS-DOS 7.10 Full
Installation Set is available from:
http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/index.htm
> I have *.RAR DOS SFx files any problem available that can extract these files in LONG format??? - Re: Any Extration utility available?? if not, make by Odi 08.02.04
You will make a RAR extractor? Cool, tell me when it's ready...
- LFN-Tools On A Cd by Pricelessware 23.01.04
To whom it may concern,
We at http://www.pricelessware.org would like to start offering a CD
that contains all of the freeware programs listed on our site. We are
doing this to help out those that have dial up. We would only be
charging for the cost of the materials. In the USA it would not exceed
$3 We would like your permission to include your program LFN-Tools on
the Pricelessware CD.- Re: LFN-Tools On A Cd by Odi 24.01.04
The issue is clearly defined by the GPL. I don't see any problem with
that. The tools have been included in other freeware collections
(Walnut creek, ct) as well. If you like, you can send a message to lfn
at odi. ch and I will send you a written permission.
- Download Error by hep 18.01.04
When I try to download the LFN Tools from
http://www.odi.ch/prog/prog.php
I always get error "403 forbidden".- Re: Download Error by Odi 18.01.04
permissions fixed. Thanks.
- Extension to LCopy? by Jeff 30.12.03
I understand that LCopy is intended to be a long file name version of
the DOS copy command, But when used for backups I seriously miss the
XCopy commands that:
1. compares files dates and only copies if younger than the copy already on the backup disk, and
2. recurses into subdirectories if found and recreates them on the
target disk even if they are not there at the start of the session.
I am not literate enough to take the code and do it myself. Could I
persuade Odi to add this functionality to the next version of LCopy?
Many thanks if you would.
Jeff- Re: Extension to LCopy? by Odi 06.01.04
> Could I persuade Odi to add this functionality to the next version of LCopy?
I will not make a next version of LFN Tools unfortunately. If you
really need to backup important data you should look for alternatives.- Re: Extension to LCopy? by Shel 23.02.04
> If you really need to backup important data you should look for alternatives. <
I've been looking and looking for something that will recover files on
a FAT32 HDD booted from a MS-DOS boot FD, and manage to perserve long
file names But LCopy.exe is the best I've found so far.
Would you have any suggestions for alternatives?
Thanks,
Shel
- Does LCOPY work to copy files from network? by HORIZON 03.12.03
Hello
Does LCOPY work to copy files comming from network?
Thank you.- Re: Does LCOPY work to copy files from network? by HORIZON 03.12.03
Here what i wanted to do
NET USE Z: \\MYSERVER\MYSHARE
LCOPY Z:\REP1\* C:\REP2\ /S /E
NET USE Z: /DELETE
but, it seems (and i can understand it) that LCOPY cannot read from a share drive. Can you confirm that it is not possible ?- Re: Does LCOPY work to copy files from network? by Odi 04.12.03
Right. You can NOT use LFN Tools on network drives.
- Bug or HD broken? by THIEF15 29.11.03
I have a partition that doesnt work in windows xp (FAT32) but in dos it
works. I heard about this program, LFN Longfilename and thoughtL: lets
try it to see if i can copy the files and preserve the long file names.
When I typed "Lcopy G:\* E:\Gdir /s /a" I got this message
ambiguous dpb!(50)
run-time error r6003
- integer divide by 0
What does this mean? Thanks in advance. It is a nice program :-).- Re: Bug or HD broken? by Odi 30.11.03
> > ambiguous dpb!(50)
> > What does this mean? Thanks in advance. It is a nice program :-).
The very first sector (DPB = disk parameter block) of a FAT file system
contains meta information about the file system such as how large it is
and where the root directory is and so on. You can display that
information with the LCHK tool.
LFN Tools check if the information presented in the DPB is consitent or
if it just contains random values. This is to ensure that LFN Tools are
only run on the supported file systems and that they do not operate on
plain wrong information and possibly destroy the filesystem. So this is
a security feature actually.
In your case it seems that the DPB is incorrect. You can check with
LCHK. Maybe the drive is not FAT32 as you believe! You can try and
repair the information with scandisk.
Odi
- codepage 862 by amos 12.11.03
it tells me codepage 862 is not supported
even after setting another codepage - LCopy und CD-ROM unter VMware by Henryk 16.10.03
Wenn ich versuche LCopy in meiner VMware auszuführen, um Dateien von
dem CDROM-Laufwerk auf die Festplatte zu kopieren, bekomme ich folgende
Fehlermeldung:
"Fehler beim Lesen der Laufwerksinfos: 2!(7)"
Woran liegt das?- Re: LCopy und CD-ROM unter VMware by Odi 01.11.03
Habe ich noch nie versucht.
VMware unter Linux? Warum willst du da die LFN Tools benützen? Linux
kann mit FAT Laufwerken doch besser umgehen als die LFN Tools.
- ( long LFNs) X (lots of files) ?= subdir limit by Bert 13.10.03
A recent hdd crash makes me suspicious of an (unknown to me)
limit in max length of a subdir file filled with long LFNs
In the drive that failed, I had a flat structure with lots of files in
one subdir, each file with a longish LFN. Somehow it gagged out, and I
lost all files above a certain value, but files below that value are
just fine.
Am I on the wrong track?
thanks if you can help.- Re: ( long LFNs) X (lots of files) ?= subdir limit by Odi 01.11.03
A subdirectory (not root) is only limited by the disk's size.
- LFN Tools - will it work in DOS 6.22 OS? by lee g. 11.10.03
LFN Tools - will it work in DOS 6.22 OS?
If so how do I install?
If not, what will work?
Thanks.- Re: LFN Tools - will it work in DOS 6.22 OS? by lee g. 11.10.03
> LFN Tools - will it work in DOS 6.22 OS?
> If so how do I install?
> If not, what will work?
> Thanks.
I tried it running it off of a floppy in DOS 6.22.
The ldir worked, I was able to see the top level lfn
directories of a cd. But I was not able to open the
directory and see and manipulate files in the lfn
dirs on the CD. I tired lcd in every way I could
think of but could not enter the directories.
IS there any way to navigate to a lfn directory on a CD?
I tried D:\>a:\lcd d:\bootdisks I get d:\> prompt back,
or I try D:\>a:\lcd d:\bootdi~5 and I get d:\&> prompt
back - w/a strange symbol - nothing usable.
help appreciated.- Re: LFN Tools - will it work in DOS 6.22 OS? by ACW 13.10.03
MS-DOS 6.22 is too old to be of use. you should use a newer version of
DOS, such as MS-DOS 7.10 + DOSLFN(optional), with LFN support.
- funktioniert es auch unter win2000 oder XP??? by Theo 11.10.03
Ich habe es unter Win98 ausprobiert, aber ich mußte feststellen, das
nich alles rüberkopiert wurde. Vieleicht lag es an den Atributen?
/a/s/y. auf jedenfall habe ich dann in der anderen Partition das Win
gestartet und es lief.
Ich will meinen künftig mit Win2000 austatten und frage deshalb, ob dieses auch mit NTFS funktioniert.
Danke Theo- Re: funktioniert es auch unter win2000 oder XP??? by Theo 11.10.03
> Ich habe es unter Win98 ausprobiert, aber ich mußte feststellen,
das nich alles rüberkopiert wurde. Vieleicht lag es an den Atributen?
/a/s/y. auf jedenfall habe ich dann in der anderen Partition das Win
gestartet und es lief.
> Ich will meinen PC künftig mit Win2000 austatten und frage deshalb, ob dieses auch mit NTFS funktioniert.
>
> Danke Theo
- save/restore win98se copies w/o gui by itest 06.10.03
bat-files, used arj, doslfnbk, lren
http://www.geocities.com/iiwbackup/
im user only. - Bug with Ghost 2003 and LFN by Dennis Hartley 01.10.03
There seems to be a bug here. Ghost will let me type in a LFN but the
resultant saved filename is fine except all the spaces are removed.
Ghost will allow me to restore from a LFN with spaces though.
BTW Vernon D. Buerg's List works fine in every respect.
Dennis- Re: Bug with Ghost 2003 and LFN by Odi 06.10.03
Sorry, no idea what you are talking about...
- does not support codepage 737 error by Nick Valman 28.09.03
Hi, i sent an email but received no response. So i decided to post here just in case my email didn't reach its destination.
Should i hope for a future version that will support codepage 737? It this something you can fix easily?- Re: does not support codepage 737 error by Odi 06.10.03
In general you should not hope for ANY future version. Stuff like the Knoppix CD has made LFN Tool obsolete basically.- Re: does not support codepage 737 error by Nick Valman 08.10.03
> In general you should not hope for ANY future version. Stuff like the Knoppix CD has made LFN Tool obsolete basically.
Hmmmm k. I will check Knoppix CD out.
Still, i would be interested in the source code of LFN tools so that i
could edit it and add Greek support. I haven't been able to download
the source from sourceforge (i ve only found final releases?) so i
wander if you could send me the source code via email or provide me a
direct link. It will only take you a couple of minutes.
Once i update it i can send it back to you if you still want to publish a new final version in the official site.
My email is:
valeonti@otenet.gr
Thank you for your time- Re: does not support codepage 737 error by Nick Valman 01.11.03
Any hope for an answer:(?
- Readme file needs reworking by Serge 13.09.03
I do not mean to critize, but the unzipped readme.txt file displays
very badly in Notepad (Win98)- very ragged text at left margin, making
it very hard to read. The History.txt file could be improved in a few
lines. The License.txt is fine.- Re: Readme file needs reworking by Odi 06.10.03
This is a DOS tool. Hence the readme file is optimized to display well
in DOS mode. Furthermore Notepad is the worst editor on earth.
- lfn in dos by znayman 08.09.03
I am looking for a program that will let me read long files names in dos.- Re: lfn in dos by ACW 15.09.03
Use:
1: MS-DOS 7.10 + DOSLFN 0.32o
2: ROM-DOS 7.10
> I am looking for a program that will let me read long files names in dos.
- LFN changes some chars in a filename by crassius 05.09.03
I recently found that I had a file that in winME appeared to have a
single quote character in it's name <'>. Your directory listing
for the directory replaced the quote with an underscore <_>.
After some investigation, I found that the quote was actually an ANSI
char <180decimal> It shows as an ANSI char in windows explorer,
but pulling the name into an editor, it shows as a DOS graphic char.
Redirecting the output of your ldir.exe into a perl script to select
certain files then copy them to another location fails when the file
with the strange char can't be found.
Have you any suggestions? At least now when it fails, I'll know to look
for strange chars, but it would be nicer if it just came out in the DOS
output as the graphic char and then it would copy OK as I've tested
typing the char into the perl script by hand. - Ambiguous DPB (50) by JG 03.09.03
I'm getting this message when trying to use lcopy from a win98 startup floppy. Any ideas?
This would be a lifesaver, thanks!- Re: Ambiguous DPB (50) by Odi 06.09.03
Check the drive's integrity with scandisk before you use LFN Tools.
- Parallel port transfer. by Colin 22.08.03
Please pardon intrusion.
Could anyone advise, will LFNtools enable me to transfer files between two machines and preserve long filenames?
TIA.- Re: Parallel port transfer. by Kaj 31.08.03
Hi Colin,
a simple way, to copy the content of a harddisk to another PC, is to
use INTERLNK.EXE/INTERSVR.EXE from DOS6 or W95. Tranfere with a
LaplinkCable (parallel port).
You boot first the sourcePC under plain DOS with the command:
PATH\INTERSVR. Then you start a destinationPC that runs under W95/98
and edit into the CONFIG.SYS DEVICE=PATH\INTERLNK.EXE /AUTO /NOPRINTER
Connect the PCs with the LaplinkCable and restart the destinationPC.
Now you should have new drives (eg F:;G:) that wors normaly but
slower...
By, Kaj from Germany
> Please pardon intrusion.
> Could anyone advise, will LFNtools enable me to transfer files between two machines and preserve long filenames?
> TIA.
- LCOPY kopieren von Verzeichnissen / hier Windows by maneich at onlinehome dot de 16.08.03
Hallo,
habe mir Ihre Lfn-Tools runtergeladen und heute versucht C:\Windows nach G:\Windows im DOS zu kopieren.
Da der Ordner Windows von LCOPY nicht automatisch erstellt wird, habe ich das Verzeichnis mit md vorher erstellt.
Den Kopiervorgang habe ich durchgeführt mit
LCOPY C:\Windows\* G:\Windows /A /S>nul.
Die folgende Prüfung nach Kopieren-Ende ergab:
Quell-Ordner 4.411 Ordner 122.231 Dateien 3.34 GB Größe
Ziel-Ordner 1.776 Ordner 29.421 Dateien 1.66 GB Größe
also eine Diffenenz von über 50 %.
Eine weitere Prüfung ergab, daß das direkt unter Windows liegende
Verzeichnis korrekt und komplett kopiert wurde, also mit allen
Unterverzeichnissen und Dateien oder ganz übersprungen wurde; also z.B.
C:\Windows\Inf ist in G:\Windows überhaupt nicht aufgeführt,
C:\Windows\System ist samt Inhalt korrekt und komplett aufgeführt. Bei
den kopierten Daten sind die langen Dateinamen korrekt.
Eine Systematik ist dabei nicht zu erkennen, da mal 1 mal 2 oder auch
mal 3 oder mehr Unterverzeichnisse übersprungen wurden und das ganz
unterschiedlich innerhalb des Verzeichnisbaums.
Das Fehlen des Parameters /b kann ja nicht Schuld daran sein, dieser soll ja nur das Abbrechen durch Tastendruck verhindern.
Ich bitte um entsprechende Informationen ob ich in der Befehlszeile einen Fehler gemacht habe oder worandas sonst liegen könnte.
MfG maneich- Re: LCOPY kopieren von Verzeichnissen / hier Wind by Odi 06.10.03
BTW:
da ich nicht denke dass du gern SPAM bekommst, mache ich deine Email Adresse unkenntlich. - Re: LCOPY kopieren von Verzeichnissen / hier Windows by maneich at onlinehome dot de 17.08.03
> Hallo,
ich habe vergessen noch zu erwähnen, daß diese Arbeit mit LCOPY aus LFN-Tools Version 1.78 durchgeführt wurde.
Mein System ist WinME. Das Ziellaufwerk hatte noch genügend freien
Speicher (ca. 8 GB) um alle Daten aufzunehmen. Das Kopieren mit LCOPY
wurde im reinen DOS durchgeführt.
Über entsprechende Antworten würde ich mich freuen.
MfG maneich- Re: LCOPY kopieren von Verzeichnissen / hier Windows by maneich at onlinehome dot de 18.08.03
> > Hallo,
also bei mir klappt nichts.
ich habe jetzt versucht nur die Verzeichnisstruktur zu kopieren mit
LCOPY C:\Windows\* G:\Windows /S, da kopiert er aber auch die Dateien
mit außer den geschützten Dateien. Außerdem fehlen noch mehr
Unterverzeichnisse und er stoppt kurz vor Ende mit der Fehlermeldung
"zu wenig Speicherplatz"; obwohl noch ca. 8 GB zur Verfügung stehen.
MIT C:\Windows>Lcopy G:\Windows /S passiert gar nichts.
Diesen Befehl akzeptiert er nicht.
Kann mir niemand hier sagen ob und was ich falsch mache, oder ist das ein Problem von LCOPY.
MfG maneich- Re: LCOPY kopieren von Verzeichnissen / hier Wind by Odi 06.10.03
Vielleicht ist das Filesystem kaputt. Du solltest mal ein scandisk
laufen lassen. Wenn alles nichts hilft: Knoppix runterladen, brennen,
booten.
- [ANN] Release 1.79 by Odi 14.08.03
The new release fixes two minor problems. No big deal.
Odi- Re: [ANN] Release 1.79 by Willyanto 24.01.04
I have a problem with copying
I've got an error message
"Out of memory!(22).
I tried to copy a windows dir,with
a lot "long name" files. It's
ca. 10000 Files.
- Copying LFN from CD to HDD by Seb 05.08.03
Hi,
I'm trying to crate a bootable CD which contains a 1:1 copy of my HDD.
During start-up I want the system to copy all files from the CD to a
RAM-disk and then start Windows from there.
Problem is that the long file names (which are fine on the Joliet-CD)
get changed into the short Joliet-names during copying with Lcopy D:\*
C:\ /s /a /r
Example: "Program Files" (on CD) -> "PROGRA~6" (in RAM-disk).
How can I prevent Lcopy from doing this and tell it to use the long
Joliet-name or at least link "PROGRA~6" with the name "Program Files"
so Windows can recognise it as such?
I've tried both Nero and WinOnCD for burning Joliet CDs - the result is the same.
I'm kinda lost. Hints are greatly appreciated!
Greets. Seb :o)- Re: Copying LFN from CD to HDD by Dabus 26.08.04
Actualy have same problem. When i copy hdd>hdd lcopy work fine, but
when from cd>hdd he change all my 866 codepage symbols to "_". CD-R
disk recorded by WinOnCD in iso9660 format. - Re: Copying LFN from CD to HDD by Odi 12.08.03
I have no idea what is the problem here. LCOPY by default creates long
file name entries in the directory. If LDIR shows the long file names
on your CD, then LCOPY should create the correct long names on the
target file system.
Odi- RAM drives by Odi 12.08.03
Maybe the problem is the RAM disk! I have never tried this before. But
I can imagine that the DOS calls I use do not work correctly with RAM
drives. One user reported a problem with RAM drives as well.
Odi- Re: RAM drives by Seb 14.08.03
Thanks Odi.
I'm still fiddling around ... will let you know if I've found out what's wrong.
Greets Seb.
- Klaus (02.02.02) by Seb 06.08.03
Hi Odi,
me agian.
I've just read the message from Klaus (02.02.02) - he seems to have a very similar problem ... gibt es inzwischen eine Loesung?
Seb
- LFN on an NTFS volume? by Dick 26.07.03
Are there any utilities similar to LFN which allow the writing of long file names on NTFS volumes as well?
Thanks,
Dick - LCOPY Error Runtime R6003 by Fabrice69 17.07.03
I have this problem with the LCOPY command :
C:\>lcopy * c:\USB
run-time error R6003
- integer divide by 0
C:\>_
Can U help me ???- Re: LCOPY Error Runtime R6003 by steve 01.09.03
> I have this problem with the LCOPY command :
> C:\>lcopy * c:\USB
>
> run-time error R6003
> - integer divide by 0
>
> C:\>_
>
> Can U help me ???
I got the same error. I would appreciate if someone could help.
- Binary copy using LCOPY by Ramin 08.07.03
Lcopy would be the greatest utility if you add Binary copy capability
into it. Or if any one knows how I can have this accomplished. I have
about 352 LFN that need to assemble and can copy them into one file.
Any help is greatly appreciated.- Re: Binary copy using LCOPY by Odi 18.07.03
Try and use the DOS copy command and the short names for this task:
copy a.txt+b.txt+c.txt all.txt
Then use LREN to assign the new file a long name.
- lcopy doesn´t copy files which have no extension by Richard Kotte 03.07.03
Hello,
i used lcopy to move windows xp from my old harddisk to my new (bigger and faster) one.
I had to copy some files like ntldr (no file extension) manually,
because lcopy hadn´t noticed them (there are some files in the
\system32\config\ folder, too. It´s the same here.)
How to make lcopy to copy really ALL files ?
Richard- Re: lcopy doesn´t copy files which have no extension by Richard 03.07.03
> Hello,
> i used lcopy to move windows xp from my old harddisk to my new (bigger and faster) one.
> I had to copy some files like ntldr (no file extension) manually,
because lcopy hadn´t noticed them (there are some files in the
\system32\config\ folder, too. It´s the same here.)
>
> How to make lcopy to copy really ALL files ?
>
> Richard
Yes, I am newbie.
Yes, I typed "*.*" instead of "*"
:-)
- Long file names gone - any idea how to restore? by Roman 27.06.03
Hi,
I have just been experiencing an unbelievable error, that was able to
damage *ALL* FAT's of all physical HD's FAT32-partitions connected to
my system (Win XP, most probably a promise-controller driver conflict).
Lucky that I am, I had a system image and I access all data on the
disks using DOS and save all files, but: the LFN's are gone.
Win XP just shows unformatted drives, DOS shows me all files, but of
course crippled to 8+1. Scandisk says, the drive was fine (!), so the
DOS-cake seems to be OK. When using LDIR to see/get LFN's, it says: DLP
unglaubwürdig!(50), as far as I remember the error-message correctly.
It will need weeks to restore all important project-data names and links, so that the project-files will run properly again.
Is there any way to restore the long file names? I am sorry if I bug
you with this, but I assume, that IF there was any hope, someone over
here WILL know. Thank you.
Roman Beilharz- Re: Long file names gone - any idea how to restore by Odi 18.07.03
Unfortunately it seems that your only chance is your backup tape.
- Copy LFN from server disk in LANMAN DOS client by Petr Macek 28.05.03
Please need suppor copy long file name from server Windows NT or Samba to DOS by MS LANMAN client- Re: Copy LFN from server disk in LANMAN DOS client by (unknown) 30.05.03
Please need help mawing lawn behind big house.
- Lcopy and NTFSDOS by Behzad 25.05.03
Hello Odi,
I'm using a 98se bootdisk to boot to dos. Then via dos I use NTFSDOS (writeable version) to mount an NTFS formatted harddisk.
The problem arises when I try to use Lcopy to copy something from E:
(NTFS) to C: (FAT). I get an error that the disk does not have direct
i/o or something.
Please advise.
Thank you.- Re: Lcopy and NTFSDOS by Max Sanzharov 25.05.03
> > I'm using a 98se bootdisk to boot to dos. Then via dos I use
NTFSDOS (writeable version) to mount an NTFS formatted harddisk.
> > The problem arises when I try to use Lcopy to copy something
from E: (NTFS) to C: (FAT). I get an error that the disk does not have
direct i/o or something.
AFAIK, NTFSDOS mounts NTFS drives as network drives. LFN Tools use only
direct I/O, but it is not possible for network drives. Even if direct
I/O is supported, LFN Tools do not support NTFS. Therefore, you can not
use NTFS drives with Odi's LFN tools.
- Bought a Turkish MP3 CD and cant read it! by ConfusedTurk 17.05.03
The OS I have is Windows ME (Eng) and I still haven't found how to set
the damn cpmode to turkish. I have installed MultiLanguage Support from
the Control Panel, and added Turkishkeyboard from the keyoard settings.
But as soon as I say, "set Default" on Turkish keyboard it says, "you
have the wrong CP" Any help???
Pls!- Re: Bought a Turkish MP3 CD and cant read it! by (unknown) 30.05.03
> The OS I have is Windows ME (Eng)
So. Please tell me how is that related to LFN Tools????
- LFN & Volkov Commander by Wlodziu 08.05.03
How to force Volkov Commander 4.99 (or another Dos Commander) to use LFN and display long names in pure DOS?- Re: LFN & Volkov Commander by ACW 13.05.03
Use:
MS-DOS 7.x + DOSLFN 0.32n + Volkov Commander 4.99
> How to force Volkov Commander 4.99 (or another Dos Commander) to use LFN and display long names in pure DOS?
- Archive attribute by Phil Calvert 29.04.03
I did a test to see if LCOPY will work for me. I tried this:
LCOPY C:\WINDOWS\* D:\WINBACK /A /S /B
This seemed to work the way I expected it, except for one thing. When I
checked the file attributes of the copied files (the copies, not the
originals), they had changed. It seems as though the archive attribute
was set on every file. I think it would be better if the attributes
were maintained as they were and not changed. Is this the way LCOPY is
supposed to work, or did I miss something?
-Phil - Error message DPB by Tom 15.04.03
Hi,
when I try to copy files I get the error
message DPB unglaubwürdig!(50)
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom- Re: Error message DPB by Odi 30.04.03
As posted many times in this forum this error message means:
The Disk Parameter Block (DPB) looks weird somehow. The reason could be
- unsupported file system
- damaged file system
See output of LCHK
- gui by beerman 06.04.03
has anyone made a gui for these tools. damn they are wonderful. if someone had please give me a link.- Re: gui by Odi 09.04.03
> has anyone made a gui for these tools.
Well, Microsoft has. Unfortunately they are not open source and you can
not download them freely - well not from MS at least :-) They are
called "Windows".
- Lcopy and PC-DOS 7.1 by Enthusiast 14.03.03
(with FAT32) when you use Lcopy, on the screen everething seem to be Ok, all the files copied...
But actually none of them were really copied
?????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????
????????????????????????????????????? - LCOPY and big partitions by Nicklas 10.03.03
I use GDISK to create a 4 GB partition in DOS, and format it of course.
I try to copy files using LCOPY and get Integer Divided by 0 as a
result. If I make partition 2 GB LCOPY works beautifully. Is there
anything I can do? LCOPY would solve my problems but I really need the
4 GB.
//Nicklas- Re: LCOPY and big partitions by Nicklas 11.03.03
ALso important is that the partition is FAT16- Re: LCOPY and big partitions by Odi 13.03.03
It's not possible to have a 4GB Partition with FAT 16!
The maximum partition size of FAT16 is 2GB.
Why?
Because a FAT can hold 65535 cluster entries. The maximum cluster size
is 32KB. 65535 * 32KB = 2GB. I have never heard of 64KB clusters, which
would be necessary to achieve 4GB.- Re: LCOPY and big partitions by ACW 14.03.03
WinNT can create a 4GB partition with FAT16 with 64KB clusters. However, DOS will never recognize it.
> It's not possible to have a 4GB Partition with FAT 16!
> The maximum partition size of FAT16 is 2GB.
>
> Why?
>
> Because a FAT can hold 65535 cluster entries. The maximum cluster
size is 32KB. 65535 * 32KB = 2GB. I have never heard of 64KB clusters,
which would be necessary to achieve 4GB.- Re: LCOPY and big partitions by Nicklas 26.03.03
We are using Symmantec GDISK (part of Ghost) to create the 4GB FAT16
partition. After that we use a standard MSDOS 6.22 bootdisk to boot up,
copy files from CD to the partition. After copy we install NT which
converts the partition to NTFS. It works just fine except for the long
filenames, which is what we try to solve. Any ideas on other tools
which can handle it if lcopy will not?
// Nicklas
> WinNT can create a 4GB partition with FAT16 with 64KB clusters. However, DOS will never recognize it.
>
>
> > It's not possible to have a 4GB Partition with FAT 16!
> > The maximum partition size of FAT16 is 2GB.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > Because a FAT can hold 65535 cluster entries. The maximum
cluster size is 32KB. 65535 * 32KB = 2GB. I have never heard of 64KB
clusters, which would be necessary to achieve 4GB.- Re: LCOPY and big partitions by ACW 31.03.03
The solution is to use MS-DOS 7.10 + DOSLFN 0.32n.
Try my MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk(with full FAT12/16/32 and LFN support):
http://newdos.yginfo.net/dosware/mdos71bd.zip
> We are using Symmantec GDISK (part of Ghost) to create the 4GB
FAT16 partition. After that we use a standard MSDOS 6.22 bootdisk to
boot up, copy files from CD to the partition. After copy we install NT
which converts the partition to NTFS. It works just fine except for the
long filenames, which is what we try to solve. Any ideas on other tools
which can handle it if lcopy will not?
> // Nicklas
>
> > WinNT can create a 4GB partition with FAT16 with 64KB clusters. However, DOS will never recognize it.
> >
> >
> > > It's not possible to have a 4GB Partition with FAT 16!
> > > The maximum partition size of FAT16 is 2GB.
> > >
> > > Why?
> > >
> > > Because a FAT can hold 65535 cluster entries. The
maximum cluster size is 32KB. 65535 * 32KB = 2GB. I have never heard of
64KB clusters, which would be necessary to achieve 4GB.
- LFN and NTFSDOS by Bentel 14.02.03
Hello
When i try to use LFN-Tools on a Drive mounted with NTFSDOS i get an
error, because of not enough memory. What kund of memory do i have to i
have enable. To goal ist to back up data on a networkdrive. Is this
possible with these Tools ?!?
Thanks in advance- Re: LFN and NTFSDOS by Odi 19.02.03
> To goal ist to back up data on a networkdrive. Is this possible with these Tools ?!?
You did not read the F.A.Q. in the readme, did you?
- Problems reading Joliet CD by _Lewellyn 08.02.03
I'm having issues with trying to read long filenames off a CD. I have
zipped some supporting information (including the output of LCHK) and
made it available at:
http://mlewellyn.greenviolet.net/ldir.zip
I have also included background information on how the disc was burned, etc.
If you have any thoughts, I'd appreciate it. In the mean time, I'll just use the full directory names.
Thanks,
--Matt <matt AT greenviolet DOT net OR lewellyn AT greenviolet DOT net>
P.S. Brief synopsis: LDIR displays \, LDIR . displays another
directory. The only way to display the current directory is with a
command like LDIR \dirname- Re: Problems reading Joliet CD by Odi 19.02.03
What is "doslfn.com t+" in your autoexec?- Re: Problems reading Joliet CD by ACW 21.02.03
DOSLFN 0.32n is the best LFN TSR for DOS. It's very stable and useful.
The switch "T+" means to enable "tunnel effect". See here for more
information about this program:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/62342.html
> What is "doslfn.com t+" in your autoexec?- Re: Problems reading Joliet CD by Odi 24.02.03
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to use DOSLFN and LFN Tools at the same time.
- Re: Problems reading Joliet CD by _Lewellyn 13.02.03
Also, recreating the disc from scratch and using Track-At-Once instead of Disc-At-Once/96 mode made no discernible difference.
--Matt
- Please help me by arimul at yahoo dot com 05.02.03
I have trouble with LFN. After running Scandisk for Windows in Win 98,
all my files and folders' name converting to 8.3 name. How to repair
this ??
Thanx..- Re: Please help me by Odi 19.02.03
As I did not write Scandisk I can not help you.
- problem with lfn by yvan 29.01.03
when i launch lcopy *.* c:\. lcopy answer "ambiguous dbp!(50)"
could you tell me what does it mean.
tank you- Re: problem with lfn by Odi 29.01.03
You are probably trying to access a drive with either a damaged or an
unsupported file system. File systems supported are: FAT, Joliet,
ISO-9660. NTFS is not supported. If the drive is a supported file
system and you still get this error, try running scandisk.
Run LCHK to get the DPB dumped to the screen. You can easily spot funny figures.- Re: problem with lfn by yvan 30.01.03
> You are probably trying to access a drive with either a damaged or
an unsupported file system. File systems supported are: FAT, Joliet,
ISO-9660. NTFS is not supported. If the drive is a supported file
system and you still get this error, try running scandisk.
>
> Run LCHK to get the DPB dumped to the screen. You can easily spot funny figures.
in fact, i boot with a dos 6.22 floppy disk and try to copy some files on a fat32 hard disk partition.
is fat32 supported by LFN- Re: problem with lfn by Odi 30.01.03
Post your LCHK output of the problem drive and I will tell you what's wrong. - Re: problem with lfn by ACW 30.01.03
> in fact, i boot with a dos 6.22 floppy disk and try to copy some files on a fat32 hard disk partition.
> is fat32 supported by LFN
MS-DOS 6.22 doesn't support FAT32 drives at all,only MS-DOS 7.10+ does.- Re: problem with lfn by ValShaq 26.03.03
> > MS-DOS 6.22 doesn't support FAT32 drives at all,only MS-DOS 7.10+ does.
You might try FreeDOS instead:
http://www.freedos.org
- CSC (Offline synchronized Files) by Wim 27.01.03
It looks like LCopy /a /s does not copy the contents of the WINNT\CSC
directory, which contains the Client-Side Cache (directories d1, d2,
... all empty).
This may have helped recovering from a harddisk crash.
Fine tool! Keep up the good work.- Re: CSC (Offline synchronized Files) by Odi 19.02.03
> WINNT\CSC directory all empty
Maybe this is sort of a Windows "special folder" like the "Downloaded
Program Files" folder. It might appear only in Explorer but may not be
a real physical folder or contain real phyical files. So there's
nothing I can do.- Re: CSC (Offline synchronized Files) by Wim 23.02.03
Could be. Are "system" files copied by default? (or with /h)- Re: CSC (Offline synchronized Files) by Odi 01.03.03
> Are "system" files copied by default?
Yes. Only hidden files are not copied unless you use /a.
- Simtel is back level ! by Cifrane 22.01.03
I have done last weekend a search on Simtel on long filenames in DOS software. I have found LFN tools but at version 1.60 !!!!
Who is responsible for updates of softwares? Simtel? the Author?- Re: Simtel is back level ! by Odi 27.01.03
> Who is responsible for updates of softwares? Simtel? the Author?
I am. But since the upload process for Simtel is a PITA I ceased to keep it uptodate.
- long folder names - dos batch file by RC 19.01.03
I have a dos batch file that deletes empty folders. I puts together a
list of all the folders on the PC and then adds a RD (remove directory)
in front of each listing.
Example: RD C:\temp\my long folder name\
It doesn't work in dos because dos thinks the word that follows the space is a parameter for the command.
Will this batch file work with LFN??- Re: long folder names - dos batch file by Jason 20.01.03
> I have a dos batch file that deletes empty folders. I puts
together a list of all the folders on the PC and then adds a RD (remove
directory) in front of each listing.
> Example: RD C:\temp\my long folder name\
> > It doesn't work in dos because dos thinks the word that follows the space is a parameter for the command.
> > Will this batch file work with LFN??
No, you still have to quote the filename (and remove the trailing backslash). ie:
[L]RD "C:\temp\my long folder name"
Jason <jadoxa@yahoo.com.au>
- DOSLFN now fully supports DBCS LFN! by ACW 15.01.03
The latest version of DOSLFN 0.32l(dated on Jan 15,2003) can now fully
support DBCS long file names(such as Chinese LFNs).It can be downloaded
from:
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/doslfn.zip - LCOPY and drvspace by RGriffin 08.01.03
can you lcopy to a drive that is compressed with drvspace and retain the long file names?- Re: LCOPY and drvspace by Odi 09.01.03
> can you lcopy to a drive that is compressed with drvspace and retain the long file names?
Have not tried that. Make sure the driver is loaded okay and try it out. But make sure you have backup if something goes wrong!
- Lost Long File Names by Ron 31.12.02
I had a system crash and unable to restart Windows 98. Using a boot
disk I got my system up to DOS. Using XCOPY unders DOS I copied all of
my data files from my C: drive to a spare D: drive and lost all of my
long file names. I have reloaded 98 on my C: drive and all is working.
Is there anyway to get the long file names back?- Re: Lost Long File Names by Odi 01.01.03
I guess no, unfortunately. You should have used LCOPY instead of XCOPY.- Re: Lost Long File Names by Cifrane 03.01.03
If you use COPY , XCOPY , or LCOPY for back up you have the problem
that they give the name of each file they copy that is too many lines
on the screen! XXCOPY has not this drawback : a parameter suppress the
names.
Can we have a Quiet (parameter Q) version of LCOPY that does not show all the names?
I think that you should include LCOPY.exe in your recovery diskette (see my rescue kit).
- My rescue kit with LCOPY by Cifrane 22.12.02
I have the normal Windows 98 recovery diskette, the better boot
diskette as defined in XXCOPY technical bulletin 32 (see 33 for NT
family), Norton antivirus diskettes for rescuing boot record partition
and virus, Total (formerly Windows) Commander a shareware far better
than Explorer (and with zip/unzip integrated), CDs with a copy of whole
C:\Windows\ (except temp*) in uncompressed format and whole C:\Program
Files\ in ziped format. I use LCOPY to replace crashed C:\Windows by
the good copy on CD and then Total Cmdr unzip function to replace
C:\Program Files\. My programs (including Total Commander which is
reinstallation proof : just need a new shortcut) are on D: and my data
on E: (saved on CD with the downloads of programs that have not their
particular CD). Total Cmdr is used to copy, zip, unzip under Windows.
The gain with LCOPY is 540Mo (in C:) of the previous copy WINOK
(waiting to be renamed) of the windows directory : long time saved to
Defrag and virus check C: !
Improvements can be : LCOPY with unzip function to have a Ziped copy of
Windows (1 Cd saved), a silent LCOPY that does not give all the names
of the files!
Now that I have this full kit my Windows does not crash!- Re: My rescue kit with LCOPY by (unknown) 26.12.02
> a silent LCOPY that does not give all the names of the files!
I propose Q as Quiet as the parameter used as other programs do for this sort of option.
- Norton Commander by PimpDaddy 22.12.02
Is it possible to use LFN-Tools with Norton Commander.
Kann man die LFN-Tools in den Norton Commander einbinden?- Re: Norton Commander by ACW 24.12.02
> Is it possible to use LFN-Tools with Norton Commander.
I don't think so.
- lcopy lonf names incorrect by macmonroe 13.12.02
I had a backup of Win95 on a rewritable Joliet CDR. I copied it with
LCOPY X:\WIN95\* C:\WIN95 /A /S /K /C
where X is the CD-Drive. The directory WIN95 was akready available on the c: drive.
He copied all but after i started my WIN98 on this system i started to
check what lcopy did, i had more than 200 errors with worng lenghts of
data, wrong filenames ...
What have i done wrong. It was a FAT 32 partition with 4 GB on a ASUS laptop with a 20 GB HD and XP 1600+ Processor.- Re: lcopy lonf names incorrect by Odi 13.12.02
If you were using LFN Tools prior to release 1.76 this can happen
unfortunately. Prior to version 1.76 there was a horrible bug that
damaged a file system and/or data if the target directory already
existed. Please use the latest version, reformat the damaged hard drive
and restore your backups.
- LCOPY problem by Olivier 12.12.02
Hello,
Your LFN tools work great. However, I want to LCOPY files with long
file names from a bad sector hard drive to another drive, and LCOPY
doesn't work...
LCHK tells me 'Ambiguous DPB(50)!'. Do you know what could be the
problem ? I succeeded to copy the bad drive files with short name
(using xcopy), but I'd like to do this with long file names.
If you see something special to do, please tell me.
Thank you for your support and your tools!
Olivier- Re: LCOPY problem by Odi 12.12.02
Well, this is the wrong tool for your problem.
Ambiguous DPB means that the data in the Disk Parameter Block (DPB, the
1st sector on that drive) is strange and probably corrupt. The message
occurs if either:
- bytes per sector < 256 or > 65535 (normal is 512)
- bytes per sector is not a multiple of 256
- sectors per cluster is > 1024 or 0 (normal is 8 - 64)
- number of FATs exceeds 8 (normal is 2)
You do not want LFN Tools to read bad data off your disk.
You should use Norton Ghost or similar to mirror your bad disk to a
stable disk (with all known good sectors). Then repair the filesystem
(Norton Utilities or Scandisk).
Then use LFN Tools or Windows to rescue your data.
Odi- Re: LCOPY problem by Olivier 13.12.02
Thanks Odi, I'll try this...- Re: LCOPY problem by GodDamn 13.03.03
I've experienced Bad Blocks in HD, and the only way to access it, is to
Boot in Dos but not In MS-DOS because it refuse to boot...
The only way I Found is to Boot With DR-DOS 7.05 (who support FAT32) but guess what....
Dr-DOS 7.05 is incompatible With GHOST 7.5, damn!
Dr-DOS 7.03 and Ghost 7.5 work Fine (but Forgot FAT32)
Therefore I want to copy Files in DR-DOS 7.05 but with LFN support and I thought Lcopy is the best Way ->
WARNING, actually it copies files but they loose integrity, so most of them have bad CRC now...
Whereas Files that were copied with Xcopy loose only Long names but are Safe!!!!!
Dig it!!!
- LFN Tools V1.78 was compiled as debug! by SoB 06.12.02
All the info's in the Topic :D LCOPY.EXE was compiled as a debug versions so it's 160k.- Re: LFN Tools V1.78 was compiled as debug! by Odi 12.12.02
I just uploaded a corrected build.
Thanks for the hint.
- Compressing an installation in DOS with LFN? by Tageot 22.11.02
As I understand it is possible to copy a complete Win9x installation
with LFN tools and restore it later (besides MBR, which can be handled
by FDISK /MBR).
If this is true, only one thing is missing to make LFN an quite equal
solution in this respect to Ghost & Co. Imaging programs:
Compression of the backuped files.
Can this be accomplished on the DOS command line with a (free?)
ZIP-Tool that preserves the long file names, too? Or is it risky/not
possible to do this, even with e.g. WinZip, because the long file names
could be messed up with?- Re: Compressing an installation in DOS with LFN? by Pjotter 05.01.03
Try using Ldzip (http://ldzip.port5.com). With Ldzip it is possible to
create a zip file in DOS with long filenames (FAT16/FAT32/NTFS). To
unzip it in Dos on a FAT16/FAT32 drive use Sam Hawker's lunzip which
can be found at http://www.geocities.com/shawkie_geo/ under Programming
- Borland C++.
Never tried it myself, but just give it a try. - Re: Compressing an installation in DOS with LFN? by Cifrane 19.12.02
> If this is true, only one thing is missing to make LFN an quite
equal solution in this respect to Ghost & Co. Imaging programs:
Compression of the backuped files.
Info-zip code (see info-zip.org) is available freely and modifiable)
but does not support long names from plain dos (only from dos in
windows box). If you replace in it the normal calls to disk by
equivalent functions written from Odi's coding you'll probably obtain
the possibility to zip and unzip with long names. I am not a programmer
: do not ask me to do it!- Re: Compressing an installation in DOS with LFN? by Odi 19.12.02
Not quite that easy. You would have to write a resident program out of
my code that adds the missing functions to the DOS Kernel. It's not so
hard to do, but a pain in the ass to debug.- Re: Compressing an installation in DOS with LFN? by Cifrane 22.12.02
Is it easier to put the info-zip coding between the read and the write actions in LCOPY?
- File with exotic name becomes unaccessible by Vincent Poreye 15.11.02
After naming a file with exotic characters (accents, @, #, ...) which
are perfectly legal in Windoze, the file has one day become
unaccessible even though is was still perfectly visible in Windows
Explorer. So I could not open it, remove it or simply rename it.
LREN saved my ass when I used the full name of the file as it appeared
in the Windows list: the file was effectively renamed and I could
access it again. - Where Norton Ghost fails, LFN tools can help !! by Vincent Poreye 15.11.02
I have an old P100 with a Seagate 20 GB disk and I had to install the
Ontrack utility to make it fully usable because the total capacity was
not identifiable by the BIOS. It seems that this utility has placed
special low-level information on the disk that even FDISK does not
affect.
The result is that Norton Ghost does not recognize the file system in
use and is then incapable of creating a backup image of the right
partition.
That's where the LFN tools came into play. I was able to fully backup a
Win 98 partition thanks to LCOPY and restore it after formatting. - LFN Tools 1.78 by Odi 14.11.02
A new version is out.
Odi - XP Version? by Coronos 26.10.02
Are you planning a lfn version compatible with Win XP?- Re: XP Version? by marcin_f 11.11.02
Windows ME was the last OS from M$ that was based on DOS. XP is based
on NT (as a matter of fact it is a development of Windows 2000) and
does not use pure DOS. Besides, even when XP is installed on FAT32
partition and booted to command line - i.e. no GUI, it natively
supports long file names.- Re: XP Version? by Odi 13.11.02
> booted to command line - i.e. no GUI, it natively supports long file names.
Thanks for putting an end to this discussion.
- Re: XP Version? by Odi 29.10.02
I thought XP wasn't based on DOS? And is it still using plain old FAT and not NTFS? So how can you Boot XP to a Real-Mode DOS?
You can always use some "old" DOS 7 (from Win98) on a diskette.
So no update to XP is necessary. And we can't handle NTFS drives anyway.
And, although I have an XP license that came with my new Acer notebook, I didn't install it.
I didn't even run it once. I wasn't curious.
Yes, I installed Linux (and only Linux) on it. And I am happy.
Odi- Re: XP Version? by Dave 30.10.02
> I thought XP wasn't based on DOS? And is it still using plain old
FAT and not NTFS? So how can you Boot XP to a Real-Mode DOS?
> You can always use some "old" DOS 7 (from Win98) on a diskette.
> So no update to XP is necessary. And we can't handle NTFS drives anyway.
>
> And, although I have an XP license that came with my new Acer notebook, I didn't install it.
> I didn't even run it once. I wasn't curious.
> Yes, I installed Linux (and only Linux) on it. And I am happy.
>
> Odi
Odi, New PC's are shipped with XP running on NTFS, but I have been told
that there is an option to install XP on FAT 32! I hope that - that is
correct, regards ...Dave- Re: XP Version? by Odi 04.11.02
> there is an option to install XP on FAT 32!
That is not the problem here. The question is:
Is there a newer DOS version in Windows XP that requires a new release
of LFN Tools? If there is no DOS in XP then LFN Tools can not run on XP.
- Re: XP Version? by Wengier 29.10.02
> Are you planning a lfn version compatible with Win XP?
That's useless.
- Codepage 857 by Ahmet 19.10.02
it say code page 857 not supported
please help me
what can i do
?
thank u- Re: Codepage 857 by Odi 23.10.02
You could send me a proper mapping between character Cp857 character codes and Unicode.
And I need to know the upper / lower case pairs for Cp857.
Then I can include this.
Alternatively you can use a different codepage (850, 437).
Use DOS' mode command to set it.
- Lcopy and upper memory by Dave 14.10.02
Hello, I restore an entire system from d: to c: from a boot floppy, I
know that /v will disable the upper memory, but I want the transfer to
go faster with ems/xms, I have put the memory manager on the boot
floppy but don't know how to edit my himem.sys to make it work, any
help will be appreciated....Dave- Re: Lcopy and upper memory by marcin_f 11.11.02
In order to speed up transfer between disks under pure DOS load
SMARTDRV.EXE with appropriate options first. See also here:
http://vernon.frazee.net/ms-dos/6.22/help/smartdrv.exe.htm - Re: Lcopy and upper memory by Odi 15.10.02
Make sure you have the following in your config.sys. You may have to specify the full path to himem and emm386.
dos=high,umb
device=himem.sys
device=emm386.exe ram- Re: Lcopy and upper memory by Dave 17.10.02
> Make sure you have the following in your config.sys. You may have to specify the full path to himem and emm386.
>
> dos=high,umb
> device=himem.sys
> device=emm386.exe ram
Thank you Odi, that did load emm386 but the copy took about 30% longer.
This was for a an entire operating system, I thought that it would be
faster? Am I still getting it wrong or would I have better results with
XMS? I thank you for the time that you spend answering these questions,
and even without upper memory Lcopy is one of the most useful files I
have ever found. Thank you,...... Dave
- some hidden files not copied by Ernest 26.09.02
First, thank you for creating and supporting such a great free tool!
I tried to email this message, but it bounced back, so here it is in the forum.
Here is some output I got from a DOS prompt under windows 98 se,
but I really see this problem after resetting to a "Command Prompt"
and trying to copy the hidden file below.
I noticed this problem after realizing that LCOPY did not copy
about 85 files when I was trying to copy my OS using
LCOPY D:\*.* G:\X /a /s /y /r
After using that command, the file shown below (among other files)
was not copied. It is a hidden file.
A few things to note that may help:
it is the first file in the directory, and it is hidden.
it is a 1028 multiple (4096) in size.
Version 1.77.2
Copyright (C) 1999 Ortwin Glueck
This is free software under GPL. See the readme file for details.
DOS Version: FF-7.10 Code page: 437
Drive: 3
Bytes per Sector: 512
Sectors per Cluster: 8
Number of Clusters: 1653460
Number of FATs: 2 Number of Root entries: 0
Media Descriptor: f8
Sectors per FAT: 12931
Sectors / reserved: 13253562 / 32
First Data Sector: 25894
First Root Sector/Cluster: 25894/2
Root Sectors: 0
Fat entries per Sector: 128
Label:
File System: FAT32
FAT32 compatible disk access enabled
Volume locking enabled
Cache: virtual, areas: 50, pages per area: 91, mem used:2393300 bytes
Free clusters: 1587858 Next free cluster: 2
-----------------------------
D:\Program Files\Uninstall Information\IE.HKCUZoneInfo>c:ldir /a
Disk in drive D: is labeled
Directory of D:\Program Files\Uninstall Information\IE.HKCUZoneInfo\
. . <DIR> 09.19.2002 14:38 .
.. . <DIR> 09.19.2002 14:38 ..
AINF0000. 4096 09.19.2002 14:38 AINF0000
1 Files 4096 Bytes
2 Directories
D:\Program Files\Uninstall Information\IE.HKCUZoneInfo>- Re: some hidden files not copied by Odi 27.09.02
This is not a bug.
> LCOPY D:\*.* G:\X /a /s /y /r
> AINF0000. 4096 09.19.2002 14:38 AINF0000
It is a typical beginner's misstake to write *.* instead of * only!
This issue is clearly addressed in:
- the manual
- several postings to this forum
- LCOPY's built-in help message
Shame on you for asking this question :-)
- long filenames under DOS by ruice 25.09.02
How can I display lon filenames under Dos. I don't mean the dos-prompt
under windows. the question is how to realize this in dos-mode
I would be greateful, if someone could help me.
with best regards
ruice- Re: long filenames under DOS by Odi 25.09.02
Download LFN Tools. RTFM.
- compiler by Roy 05.09.02
re: "It's your problem"
Where can I get MS-VC++ ver 1.51
or is there an alternative?- Re: compiler by Odi 06.09.02
- ask in a Newsgroup (what I did)
- ask MS
- search www
- search P2P networks :-)
- LCOPY LFN$$$16char$lfn.$$$ by Thenasty 03.09.02
I followed the instruction of how to copy this file but the file is
ZERO BYTE and DOS dones not want to copy it. I use LCOPY to copy and it
keep saying 0 copied. How do you lcopy a ZERO byte file ?- WFM by Odi 07.09.02
Works for me:
E:\test>ldir
1 . <DIR> 07.09.2002 12:31 1
NEWFIL~1.TXT 0 07.09.2002 12:29 New File.txt
E:\test>lcopy "New File.txt" 1\
New File.txt
1 file(s) copied
Flushing cache...
E:\test>cd 1
E:\test\1>ldir
Disk in drive E: is labeled
Directory of E:\test\1\
. . <DIR> 07.09.2002 12:31 .
.. . <DIR> 07.09.2002 12:31 ..
NEWFIL~1.TXT 0 07.09.2002 12:29 New File.txt
1 Files 0 Bytes
2 Directories
- Latin-2 by Odi 03.09.02
Codepage 852 is now supported thanks to Marcin Frankowski from NZ.
Odi - DBCS support by Odi 30.08.02
At the moment I can not provide DBCS support.
But it may arrive later this year.
If you like, just look at the unicode2.inc file and
contribute a patch for DBCS support.
Sorry guys.- Re: DBCS support by ACW 31.08.02
The latest version of Chris Jone's LFNDOS(ver:1.07a2) support DBCS codepages(incl. CP936).
Here is the source code of LFNDOS 1.07a2:
http://firststep.ahwww.com/dianbo/lfndosrc.zip
- Korean LFN support(?), Plase by Lee 30.08.02
Korean LFN support
Could you please add Korean LFN support
in the LFN tools,too? I have tried many times,but I still can't do that. Thanks.
The code page 949(HANGUL - 2Byte)- Re: Korean LFN support by ACW 30.08.02
> Korean LFN support
Oh! Also the DBCS codepage, like the
Chinese one(CP936).
- Lcopy to novell netware drive by Borderman 27.08.02
im using a network boot disk that maps up a novell network drive. When
trying to copy files from the local drive to that share i get : Error
reading drive 7 sector 0 - 0!(0) Could not read BPB!(16)- Re: Lcopy to novell netware drive by Odi 28.08.02
As pointed out in the documentation, the FAQ and in
several postings in this forum LFN Tools do not
support network drives.- Re: Lcopy to novell netware drive by mrMR 31.08.02
I understand and have read alla about the trouble to get Lcopy to work with networkdrivers/shares.
But its a feature that would be a 100% upgrade to this indeed great product.
It Would save soo mutch time to be able to dump out file through a dos networkshare
As you said earlier "its not inpossibe..." ...
Perhaps to mutch to ask i know but it would be GREAT !
Another solution would be to make some kind of client server system .. hummm ...
#1 make the Ldir dir the files in both "ms-way"
and "ldir" way saving the output to an special file.
Then copy the files normally to the destination...
(perhaps to a networkshare..) then have the program
rename all the files backwords using the list made earlier.
This would REaly solve a problem to... if some one with the skill can make this reality...
Regards Martin mr-mr@hotpop.com (Do no abuse please)
> As pointed out in the documentation, the FAQ and in
> several postings in this forum LFN Tools do not
> support network drives.- Re: Lcopy to novell netware drive by Odi 01.09.02
Erm... Networking in DOS must be a pain in the ass for a programmer...
I definitely will never do that.
Listen, I am a Java developer and I dislike C. This DOS shit is "only" to
provide *simple* means to fix a broken Windows installation and
to rescue data before you do re-install. Adding more and more
functionality is completely beyond scope. I will try and eliminiate
existing bugs from the tools and maybe add small features like this
charset stuff. But debugging and testing network code on a "OS" like DOS
(with almost no memory, no multitasking, no protected mode) with
a poor language (compared to Java) and an ice age IDE just can't be fun.
If you need network, using a Linux diskette distr will give you less headache.
- Numerische Erweiterung? by charanor 26.08.02
Hi!
Ich habe ein Problem beim Installieren des Win 98ME auf meinen alten
Laptop(Panasonic CF-41, 100MHz, 16MB RAM, 2,1 GB HD, Win 98SE)
Beim Setup kommt sofort die Meldung: "Für alle Dateinamen mit mehr als
8 Zeichen sollen kürzere Dateinamen mit numerischer Erweiterung
erstellt werden, aktivieren sie die entsprechende Option".
Kann mir jemand bitte erklären, wie und wo ich diese Option aktivieren kann? - Lcopy error message by Dave 24.08.02
Hi, I tried to copy an entire system from D: to C: from a floppy boot
disk, and had a message saying that the drive did not support direct
i/o I don't know if there is a way to overcome this problem. I would
really appreciate some help......Dave- Re: Lcopy error message by Dave 25.08.02
> Hi, I tried to copy an entire system from D: to C: from a floppy
boot disk, and had a message saying that the drive did not support
direct i/o
I have think that lcopy is unable to access the the hard drive through
the bios, as I have Win98 se on fat 32, I am still unable to see why it
does'nt work? Dave.....- Re: Lcopy error message by Odi 28.08.02
What DOS version are you booting?- Re: Lcopy error message by Dave 15.09.02
> What DOS version are you booting?
Thanks for your replies Odi and Roberto, sorry for my late reply, I
have had to replace power supply to my computer and have been
offline... Roberto, I disabled the higher memory "/v" and that did'nt
help, but thank you. Odi, I was using the wrong DOS version from Win95
on a Win98 system and everything is now working well, thank you. I am
sorry to have made a stupid mistake, we are all of different levels of
ability and try very hard to make things work, I am glad that people
have the time to help each other on this site, GREAT SITE, GREAT
PEOPLE.....These files have changed the way that I will use "Windows"
Forever, Thanks Odi...
- Re: Lcopy error message by Roberto 25.08.02
> > Hi, I tried to copy an entire system from D: to C: from a
floppy boot disk, and had a message saying that the drive did not
support direct i/o
>
> I have think that lcopy is unable to access the the hard drive
through the bios, as I have Win98 se on fat 32, I am still unable to
see why it does'nt work? Dave.....
no, i have Win98SE and Fat32 and Lcopy workin fine a lot of time to backup C: to d: and
restore d: to C:
looking better the boot floppy disk for memory manager Himem.sys
- Russion support by Odi 23.08.02
Thanks to a Russian friend who supplied excellent Unicode <->
8-bit Mapping support for code page 866 has finally made it into the
latest build.
Be sure you set the codepage in your autoexec.bat :
mode con codepage prepare=((866) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=866
and a Russian keyboard driver.- Re: Russian support by ACW 24.08.02
Does it support DBCS code pages?- Re: Russian support by Odi 24.08.02
> DBCS code pages
No idea what you are talking about, sorry. I'm not an expert with code pages. It supports code pages 437, 850 and 866.- Re: Russian support by ACW 24.08.02
> > DBCS code pages
DBCS stands for "Double-byte character sets",
including Japanese,Korean,Chinese,etc.
What I want to know is if I can add those
DBCS codepages(e.g. CP936) to UNICODE.INC directly so LFN tools can support them?- Re: Russian support by Odi 28.08.02
With the latest version you can add the new code page
directly to unicode2.inc !
You can use CVS and send me the diff.
- Chinese LFN support by ACW 21.08.02
Could you please add Chinese LFN support
in the LFN tools,too? I have tried many times,but I still can't do that. Thanks.
The code page 936(GB2312) list is here:
http://firststep.ahwww.com/dianbo/cp936-gb.txt- Re: Chinese LFN support by Odi 23.08.02
Could you please give an explanation on how to read these tables. For me it's just numbers.
I expect a mapping like:
ASCII 0x41 = A = Unicode 0x0041
or arrays like
asc2uni = { ..., 0x0041 , ... } at position 65
and
uni2asc = { ..., 0x41 , ... } at position 65 for unicode codepage 00- Re: Chinese LFN support by ACW 23.08.02
How about the following table:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP936.TXT
>
> I expect a mapping like:
>
> ASCII 0x41 = A = Unicode 0x0041- Re: Chinese LFN support by Odi 28.08.02
Uh... I see DBCS the first time! I will need to change some
of the code first in order to support them.
What about lower- to upper-case mapping? This might become
a PITA with DBCS, no?- Re: Chinese LFN support by ACW 28.08.02
> What about lower- to upper-case mapping? This might become
> a PITA with DBCS, no?
Here are some details on DBCS:
http://www-919.ibm.com/developer/dbcs/guide5.html
- Re: Chinese LFN support by ACW 21.08.02
> Could you please add Chinese LFN support in the LFN tools,too? I have tried many times,but I still can't do that. Thanks.
>
> The code page 936(Unicode to GB2312) list is here:
> http://firststep.ahwww.com/dianbo/cp936-gb.txt
And the code page 936(GB2312 to Unicode) list is here:
http://firststep.ahwww.com/dianbo/cp936-un.txt
- Russian LFN support by Andrew 17.08.02
Do you plan to support Russian LFNs? I saw a message in which you
propose to include the corresponding UNICODE tables into the source
code. Where these tables can be found? The site www.unicode.org is
down... ;(- Re: Russian LFN support by Andrew 17.08.02
DosLFN(http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/freew.html) has
the tables needed. Could you, please, incorporate at least cp866 into
your programs? Or give instructions on how to do it, please.- Re: Russian LFN support by Odi 20.08.02
I can easily do that. All I need is the mapping between the 886 code
page and Unicode (16 bit value). If you can send me such a list I will
be glad to add the support you are asking for.
Trying to find this out manually on my PC is a pain in the ass...
- Lcopy problems by Glav 10.08.02
I am having some problems getting LCOPY to work.
It seams to just copy the dir and no files. I used the /r and the /s
but still no good. But I need the sub dir also so I used the /s. I can
get one dir of files but only when I run the lcopy from that dir.
Then I can not read any of the files in the dest dir. They are only
word docs so it should be easy to view them but they are all mumble
jumble.
Can you post some examples of the LCOPY command for me to see.
Thanks,
Glav- Re: Lcopy problems by Andrew 17.08.02
> It seams to just copy the dir and no files.
Use "sourcedir\*" syntax.
- LCOPY Win XP by Roberto 07.08.02
Can i use Lcopy for backup the drive with
installed Win XP by FAT32 ?
Thanks
rg@libero.it - lcopy contents of entire drive to dir on another by Ken 06.08.02
What would the proper syntax be to copy all files and directories from
a drive (including all subdirs) to a directory on another drive?
Example: copy everything from Drive F: to 'E:\Arc\DriveF'.
Also, is there any way to backup the boot files in a Windows
2000/Windows 98 dual boot situation? I am planning to get a new drive
soon and use LFN tools to help me copy the data from the old drive to
the new after booting from a DOS boot disk. I can use the 'sys' command
to get the drive bootable for the backup of Win98 I guess, but I will
have to re-install Windows 2000 after this to get the dual boot back,
then try to restore the Win2K backup from DOS or Win98. - lcopy from 1.76 corrupted my drive by Perry 29.07.02
Hi,
I was running lcopy /a /s /v /b c:\* d:\
and after it copied about 10 files, it started getting "Write drive 3 sector failed .... 131!" I believe.
In any case, I had himem.sys disabled, as I had ntfspro loaded. When I
tried to read the drive after cancelling the lcopy (^C), the directory
entries existed, but when I tried to read them, I got a sector not
found error...
I was copying from a "bad" drive at the time.... Win2k won't read the disk, but a DOS disk does.- Re: lcopy from 1.76 corrupted my drive by Odi 31.07.02
Do not use LFN Tools on drives whose file structure is corrupt. LFN
Tools can not cope with situations like that. Read/Write errors
indicate bad drives.
- ldir doesn't show long names ! by philippe 27.07.02
ldir from latest versiondoesn't display lfn but the infamous namexx~1 format names !
Is thsi normal ???- Am ashamed ! by (unknown) 07.08.02
> ldir from latest versiondoesn't display lfn but the infamous namexx~1 format names !
>
> Is thsi normal ???
Hummmmm !!
Seems I have not looked well at display of the dir listing !
I am so acustomed to look at the left, where the names are in
??????~n.ext format when long names used, that I have overlooked the
rightest column wher I just now have noticed some long names !
I am going to hide myself !
Think you can stop searching the millenary bug !
Thanks. - Re: ldir doesn't show long names ! by (unknown) 27.07.02
> ldir from latest versiondoesn't display lfn but the infamous namexx~1 format names !
>
> Is thsi normal ???
Precision : in a DOS window under win98SE.
Have not yet tested in pure DOS since son surfing for now through my PC as server.
WIll try later.
Philippe- Re: ldir doesn't show long names ! by Odi 29.07.02
Please post a screenshot.- Have tried in DOS-reboot : nope ! by philippe 07.08.02
> Please post a screenshot. ========= How ????
Have now tried in DOS ( reboot in DOS mode) : ldir does not show long
file names but the infamous 8.3 short names in ??????~n.ext form.
Haven't yet tried older version of lfn ( had them earlier). - Re: ldir doesn't show long names ! by philippe 04.08.02
> Please post a screenshot.
How do I do that here ?
- LFN on network shares by ryan 17.07.02
In an earlier posting you said that LFN Tools doesn't support network
shares. Is this something your working towards or is it impossible?- Re: LFN on network shares by Odi 24.07.02
It's not possible. DOS network drives do not allow physical access to
the disk. And on a logical drive only short names are provided.
Odi
- Thanks by Lee 16.07.02
I really appreciate these utilties, they just
saved me alot of time/frustration in pulling
some files off a semi-dead system. - Please upgrade to 1.76 by Odi 09.07.02
Everybody should upgrade unconditionally to version 1.76 as it fixes a severe bug.
Odi - Is a TSR version planned? by Rod Pemberton 08.07.02
Hello,
I have a large hard drive with many files and directories. I
constantly have problems with Chris Jones's lfndos TSR. He no longer
supports his driver.
Do you plan to produce a TSR LFN driver?
Sincerely,
Rod Pemberton- Re: Is a TSR version planned? by Odi 09.07.02
I actually *did* have plans for a TSR version. But I simply do not have
the time for it. Moreover debugging a TSR in DOS is a pain in the ass.
Odi
- Dateisysteme nicht synchronisiert by Andreas Weidner 08.07.02
Bezueglich der unsynchronisierten Joliet- bzw. ISO-Dateisysteme kam die
Frage auf, mit welcher Software man denn die CDs brenne, die
anschliessend nicht mehr mit den LFN-Tools lesbar sind.
Ich habe bisher sowohl WinOnCD (in einer zwei Jahre alten Version) als
auch einen neuen Easy-CD-Creator verwendet - BEIDE Programme erzeugten
unsynchronisierte Dateisysteme (unter Windows 98), und irgendwelche
Optionen zur Beeinflussung der Sortierreihenfolge oder so habe ich
nicht gefunden. Mag sein, dass beide Programme nichts taugen, aber es
sollte zumindest ein recht bekanntes Problem sein - oder gibt es
irgendwelche Einstellungen, von denen mir nichts bekannt ist, und mit
denen man sinnvolle CDs brennen kann (z.Z. brauche ich kein Backup auf
CD zu machen, weil ich es unter DOS sowieso nicht wiederherstellen
kann).
Danke fuer die Hilfe.
Andreas Weidner- Re: Dateisysteme nicht synchronisiert by Odi 09.07.02
Ja es ist so. Die CD's die die Programme brennen sind schon okay. Nur
sind die LFN Tools momentan noch ein bisserl dumm diesbezüglich. Ich
habe aber momentan keine Zeit um das zu ändern. Bin dankbar um Mithilfe.
Odi- I changed my mind by Odi 09.07.02
Okay this stuff is important. I just fixed this and a related bug.
Check out the new version 1.76. The code has now been transfered to
Sourceforge.net. So everybody can access it easily through CVS. You can
get old versions there as well.
Odi
- Rename 8.3 files, leaving LFN intact? by Peter 07.07.02
Hi, I was wondering if you knew of a way that I could rename an 8.3
filename, but not change the LFN. Windows 98 appears not to have this
capability.
The reason I would like to do this is that the ~1 ~2... suffixes
windows adds to the dos name are incompatible with a dos program I am
using; but I would still like the LFN to be available to the windows
programs. (Would also like to have 8.3 rather than 6.3!)
Most of the names I need to change are of directories.
Thanks in advance.- Re: Rename 8.3 files, leaving LFN intact? by Odi 07.07.02
Use the DOS ren command under DOS (not a DOS Window).
Odi
- Lcopy copying to the same drive by Brian 28.05.02
I am trying to use lcopy (version 1.75) to copy from one directory to
another directory on the same drive on a fat32 drive in DOS 7.1
(Windows 98 native DOS). In other words, I use "lcopy d:\dira\*
d:\dirb\ /s /a". The files will not go to "dirb" but they will try to
overwrite "dira" files. If I use "lcopy d:\dira\* c:\dirb\ /s /a",
lcopy works just fine copying to drive C.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You,
Brian
bpoole2@yahoo.com - Ambiguous DPB!(50) by Tony 26.05.02
Hi there,
I am really stumped about this problem that I am having.
I have 4 hds in my system, 20gb (C:), 80gb (D:), 2x40 (raided 0, F: G: H:)
C:, D:, E:. and F: are all Fat32 and G: is NTFS. Windows XP is
installed on the G: drive and Windows 2000 is installed on the C: drive.
Everything has been running just great, last night I stepped away from
my computer for a few and when I got back I had a 'delayed write on D:
Failure' (or something to that effect relating to delayed hard drive
writing) and the computer was locked up. (I was running edonkey at the
time and thats my save all drive).
Since the computer was completely locked up I had to reset it and it
started up just fine, no problems. EXCEPT when I tried looking on my D:
it tells me this. 'The disk in drive D is not formatted. Do you want to
format it now?'. It does the same thing in Windows 2000.
WHOA! not a good thing. Nothing I do will get it to recognize the
drive. So, I know what you all are thinking. The boot sector is all
messed up and the drive is no good anymore.
Here is where the wierd thing is, if I boot up with a win95 bootup
disk, I can read the directory and files 100% without ANY failure, no
problems what so ever!
So then I figured, fine, I will copy all the stuff or most of the stuff
to a seperate drive from dos, but ofcourse then we have the longfile
name problem, so I downloaded a long file name support program called
LFN at www.odi.ch thinking this would solve my woes. The program works
great on all my other drives/partitions (not G: (NTFS)) except for
drive D: which it reports an Ambiguous DPB!(50), supposedly this is a
standard network drive error except this drive is not networked, it is
physically in my machine, I am looking at it right now.
Any help here would certainly make my day, I went from working
flawlessly to not at all in a matter of minutes (welcome to computer
world per say), its just that it works flawlessly in dos that really
freaks me out.
Thank you,
Tony Lindskog
Rockford Web Design
lindskog@rockfordwebdesign.com
www.rockfordwebdesign.com - liefert lcopy errorlevel zurück? by Juergen Klein 17.05.02
ich möchte lcopy in einer batch datei einsetzen. liefert lcopy nach erfolgtem kopiervorgang einen errorlevel zurück?
gruß jürgen- Re: liefert lcopy errorlevel zurück? by Odi 17.05.02
Ja.
Alle LFN Tools liefern bei einem Fehler grundsätzlich 1 zurück. Bei normalem Programmende 0.
Odi
- Windows Datei kopieren auf 2 Zip by Dr Pest 25.04.02
Hallo Leute,
habe ein riesiges Problem. Möchte gerne den Windows Ordner auf Zip
kopieren. Dazu möchte ich oder mu´ß ich sogar Lfn benutzen also LCOPY.
Nun dies habe ich probiert doch das klappt nicht. Meldung. ...drive
does not support direct I/O (51). Was soll ich tun. Muß eine bootbare
CD erstellen mit Unserer Geräte Software und brauche diese Datei!!
Help - lunzip by Sam Hawker 22.04.02
I am working on a new derived work. Actually, it is more directly derived from LBACK, but...
It's a very basic unzipper.
http://www.geocities.com/shawkie_geo/files/lunzip.zip - LFN On network Share's? by Henk-Jan 02.04.02
I subject I read not much aboutm but 1. Does the DOS verssion 7.xx support LFN on network shares?
And do the Tools support that?- Re: LFN On network Share's? by Odi 08.04.02
LFN Tool can not handle remote drives.
- Techwork Bootdisk problems by braydond 02.04.02
HI, Probs with lcopy on the techworm v5.4 boot disk..i selected default startup...
x: cdrom drive
c: fat32 partition
i made dir called win2k on c: drive
and i ran a:\\lcopy x:\\*.* c:\\win2k /s /a
now on the cd i got hidden files and sub directories which i wish to copy to my hd ..so yeah.. :)
then it gives me cannot copy multiple files to one file...its not
recognizing the win2k dir as a dir but a file..plz help me..thnx...
braydond@hotmail.com braydond@yaoo.com- Re: Techwork Bootdisk problems by W0rm 06.04.02
Why do you use two slashes instead of one? Have you tried adding a
slash after win2k? Even if this is a problem with LCOPY I'm sure
there's a way around it :D
- W0rm
- http://dos.li5.org
> HI, Probs with lcopy on the techworm v5.4 boot disk..i selected default startup...
> x: cdrom drive
> c: fat32 partition
> i made dir called win2k on c: drive
> and i ran a:\\lcopy x:\\*.* c:\\win2k /s /a
> now on the cd i got hidden files and sub directories which i wish to copy to my hd ..so yeah.. :)
> then it gives me cannot copy multiple files to one file...its not
recognizing the win2k dir as a dir but a file..plz help me..thnx...
>
> braydond@hotmail.com braydond@yaoo.com
- Vorschläge by Reto 29.03.02
Hallo
Diese Programme sind spitze.
Jedoch sollte es ein Programm geben
LFN.exe das sich in den Speicher einnistet und die orginalbefehle (dir xcopy copy ...) abfängt und selber übernimmt.
(Möglich wäre ja auch ein Command.com 720kb gross mit allen befehlen)
Noch besser währe ein Dateimanager der wie ein OS startet
FAT / FAT32 /NTFS /HPFS /ext2 partitionen und den CD-Rom-Treiber lädt.
Zwecks Datensicherung einen CD-Brenner steuern und sich wie WINFILE.EXE
mit einer Maus bedienen läst.
Optionell wäre ein Datei-Editor um Autoexec.bat Config.sys oder auch ander Dateien zu bearbeiten.
So wie in der Taskleiste ein C:\\_ prompt für die Direkte befehlseingabe.
Komprimiert so Gross um sich von einer 3,5 Zoll Diskette zu booten.
Habe selber mit mangelden erfolg probiert eine miniversion von Win95 auf einer CD-ROM zum laufen zu bringen.
Danke für\'s lesen.
MfG Reto Baumer
enjoy@surfeu.ch - lcopy bei kurzen Verzeichnisnamen by Sindbad Siefahrer 20.03.02
Hi Odi,
deine Tools sind echt klasse.
Kann ich lcopy dazu kriegen, mit kurzen Verzeichnisnamen zu arbeiten?
Beispiel: Ich will 1.txt nach C:\Programme kopieren.
Gebe ich ein:
lcopy 1.txt C:\Programme
ist alles ok.
Gebe ich aber ein:
lcopy 1.txt C:\Progra~1
oder
lcopy 1.txt C:\Progra~1\
landet 1.txt auf C:\, also genau so, als würde der Zielordner nicht
existieren. Er existiert aber und heißt unter DOS wirklich Progra~1.
Lcopy findet Ordner unter ihrem Kurznamen einfach nicht.
Das ist ungünstig, weil man unter DOS die langen Dateinamen von Ordnern nicht immer auswendig kennt.- Re: lcopy bei kurzen Verzeichnisnamen by Odi 24.03.02
Wenn du kurze Dateinamen willst, dann benütze doch einfach die standard DOS Befehle. Die können das sehr gut.
Odi
- Chinese long file name by Wengier 17.03.02
There are many Unicode translation
tables located at:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/
but how can I use them to let
LFN tools to display Chinese(936)
long file names?- Re: Chinese long file name by Odi 18.03.02
Look at the unicode.inc source file.
You must provide the missing tables for your code pages.
- Please report bugs by email not forum by Odi 15.03.02
I remind you that this forum is not meant to be used for bug reports because I do not guarantee to read it.
Please send bug reports to lfn-bugs@odi.ch only!
Thanks
Odi - korean long file name by (unknown) 12.03.02
//vmemory.h present ?
#define VMEMORY
Cannot compile(no file: vmemory.h )
e-mail : kim7179kim@hotmail.com
note : sorry, my poor english- Re:V Memory by Odi 13.03.02
just remove the #define VMEMORY if you haven't got vmemory.h
Odi
- korean long file name by Lee 10.03.02
안녕하세요
여기는
한국(korea)입니다.
이
프로그램을
접하면서
한가지 제안
사항이 있어
글월을
올립니다.
프로그램상
사용에
문제점은
없으나
한국에서는
2바이트(byte)
체계의
언어를
사용하다보니
도스모드(DOS
MODE)에서
한글(Hangeul)과 같이
사용할 경우
한글로 된 긴
화일명은
복사를 할 수
없습니다.
어떻게
해결할 수
있는 방법은
없읍니까?- Re: korean long file name by (unknown) 11.03.02
You can contribute and provide a Unicode translation table for Korean
code pages. However I will not be able to test it on my machine since I
do not speak any Korean nor can I read those characters. Look at the
tables in the unicode.inc file. What I need is a table
static unsigned char pageXX[256]
for every Unicode page XX that is used.
- A small bug by Wengier 09.03.02
If the name of a directory in the root directory is the same as the
label of the drive, maybe LDIR will not be able to access that
directory at all(Instead,it will display files in the root directory). - locking bug in msdos 7 by Shades 06.03.02
ms-dos 7 disables direct disk access, I figure you can add in a
function (ax=7303h i think?) to lock the drive to be copied to...its
quite a pain remembering to do "LOCK C:" before using LCOPY, else the
system freezes- Re: locking bug in msdos 7 by Odi 07.03.02
Locking is performed with the int0x21h / AX=0x440Dh, CX=0x084Ah function at the moment.
There is a function AH=0x73h but it is poorly documented:
http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-3225.htm
Can you send LCHK output?
Odi
- Size jump! by Bub 06.03.02
I like these tools and have been using version 1.71.
I just downloaded vers. 1.75 and, woah! LDIR and LDEL are 250% bigger! What happened? Will they be reduced in the future?
I use them on an emergency boot floppy, and don't have that much room to spare.- Re: Size jump! by Odi 07.03.02
Oops. I didn't realize that. Maybe there is something wrong with the
make file, but actually I didn't touch it. I will check that.
Odi
- LCOPY by OT1 06.03.02
I have got some trebles with LCOPY v1.75.
My example:
LCOPY z:\diskc\windows\* c:\windows.ame /s
where:
z: - CD (burned)
in directory "windows" is one directory and in this directory is one file (LFN)
c: - local disk
c:\windows.ame - directory on local disk
in directory "windows.ame" is the same directory as in "windows" on CD
Problem:
if I run LCOPY (see example) everything looks fine on my screen is a message:
1 file(s) copied
Flushing cache...
But in directory on local disk is no file.
If I use v.1.71 the file is on local disk.
Any ideas???- Re: LCOPY by John 14.03.02
> I have got some trebles with LCOPY v1.75.
> My example:
> LCOPY z:\diskc\windows\* c:\windows.ame /s
> where:
> z: - CD (burned)
> in directory "windows" is one directory and in this directory is one file (LFN)
> c: - local disk
> c:\windows.ame - directory on local disk
> in directory "windows.ame" is the same directory as in "windows" on CD
>
> Problem:
> if I run LCOPY (see example) everything looks fine on my screen is a message:
> 1 file(s) copied
> Flushing cache...
> But in directory on local disk is no file.
> If I use v.1.71 the file is on local disk.
> Any ideas???
I too have this problem. Can someone please send me V1.71 or whatever
version that (LCopy) works. Send to TurnerJL@MyCompuCity.com - Re: LCOPY by Odi 07.03.02
Have you tried adding a backslash at the end of the target directory?
Odi- Re: LCOPY by OT1 13.03.02
> Have you tried adding a backslash at the end of the target directory?
> > Odi
With the backslash it's OK.
But why when I ran LCOPY ....(see my example in the my last message) I got on screen a message:
A:\LCOPY .....
Directory\
Long File Name.exe
1 file(s) copied
Flushing cache...
and the file was not in Directory.
This is a little bit strange.- Re: LCOPY by (unknown) 13.03.02
> > Have you tried adding a backslash at the end of the target directory?
> > > Odi
> > With the backslash it's OK.
> But why when I ran LCOPY ....(see my example in the my last message) I got on screen a message:
> > A:\LCOPY .....
> Directory\
> Long File Name.exe
> 1 file(s) copied
> Flushing cache...
> > and the file was not in Directory.
> This is a little bit strange.
I'm sorry, I tried it several times again and the problem is elsewhere. (the backslash has no influence on the problem).
!!!The Directory exists before copying!!!
If I want to copy a directory with some file(s) and on a destination is
a directory with the same name I got the directory w/o new file(!!!)
but with information that the file was copied (see above).:-(- Re: LCOPY by OT1 13.03.02
The previous message was from me.
Sorry.
- v1.75: Underscore problem solved! by Odi 02.03.02
The ubiquitous bug on some CD-ROMs caused all filenames to consist of
underscores only. This nasty thing is now fixed. Thanks to Geert from
Belgium.
Odi - Windows 95/98 running from RAMDISK by Soedesh 26.02.02
I think this program is what I need to make my Win9x system running from RAM.
I also have downloaded some other programs like XXCOPY and LFNDOS, but I will try LCOPY first...
I also use XMSDSK to make a larger RAM disk then 32 Mb.
I am also posting in the Windows 3.1 forum at computing.net.
Running 3.1 from RAM is easy ;-)
I hope the guy from Calmira will succeed in implementing LFN.
s.n.l.jankie@wanadoo.nl- Re: Windows 95/98 running from RAMDISK by spamtrap 10.07.02
> I think this program is what I need to make my Win9x system running from RAM.
I am also trying but have struck problems unrelated to lcopy. Basically
I install windows on one drive eg r:, using the subst command in
autoexec.bat, create a ramdisk with xmsdsk, then lcopy files to r: and
remove the subst command before starting windows. Works fine except
user.dat and system.dat that windows uses is from original drive and
not ramdrive. I have attempted to load windows into the ram drive with
lfn pkzip prog but the unzip doesn't recreated the lfn's. This is
probably not the correct forum for this so if you are interested in
discussing this feel free to email me at spamtrap@paradise.net.nz.
ps Thanks to ODI for doing what microsoft won't. Yes, DOS does exist even if microsoft refuses to acknowledge it.
- How do I install this program? in DOS mode by Mpatel 25.02.02
Hello,
I am stuck in DOS mode and need to view all my long file names in order
to make correction to the a file so I can get windows to start. I
downloaded and unzipped the files (on another computer) but how do I
install these files in my bad computer?- Re: How do I install this program? in DOS mode by Odi 28.02.02
You do not need to "install" anything.
Just copy them onto a diskette and use them from there.
You might want to include the location of the tools in your PATH environment variable like so:
SET PATH=A:\LFNTOOLS;%PATH%
where A:\LFNTOOLS is where the system can find the LFN Tools.
Afterwards you can use the tools from anywhere.
HTH
Odi
- LCOPY by McSAM 20.02.02
I've used LFN utilities for months & would be lost without them.
Invaluable tools! However, I've observed a small annoyance with LCOPY
which showed up in v1.73. When copying directories/subdirs, the
Time/Date structure used to be maintained. In v1.73 the parent
directory uses the original file time/date, but not in the directory
itself. I have reverted back to v1.71 as I use this feature several
times daily.
Please advise. Thanks. - Calmira and LFN's by Erwin Dokter 16.02.02
Hi Odi,
I am the developer of Calmira (http://www.calmira.org), a 16-bit
Windows shell replacement. One of my long-standing wished is
implementing Long Filename support.
I have searched the net, and there are many DOS LFN implementations,
either as command line utilities or DOS drivers. There is even a Pascal
version, but not with source :( (Calmira is written in Delphi).
How hard would it be to build a 16-bit Windows DLL, so Calmira (and
otehr apps) can use LFN functions? I have absolutely no clue about
C(++), I'm a Pascal man myself...- Re: Calmira and LFN's by Odi 17.02.02
So you need a 16-bit LFN-DLL huh?
Actually I am not so into C either. I work with Java mainly. C was just
the onyl thing available at the time I started this. Maybe you better
ask a real C crack.
I am porting the LFN library to object oriented at the moment. So I am
not sure how future releases will be compatible with delphi.
Odi- Re: Calmira and LFN's by Erwin Dokter 19.02.02
> I am porting the LFN library to object oriented at the moment. So
I am not sure how future releases will be compatible with delphi.
What do you mean by porting to OO? Delphi is object oriented... it can also import any DLL writen in any language.- Re: Calmira and LFN's by Odi 22.02.02
At the moment LFN is *not* OO.
In the future there will *only* be the OO version (if everything goes
right). But as I said you should better ask someone that has worked a
lot with C / C++.
Odi
- how to copy the i386 by Jimson 06.02.02
let say we are in the DOS.
and want to copy the i386 on the e:\i386, what to do.
i try
lcopy e:\i386\* c:\i386
what it did was it simply copy all the file in many directories and put the all in c:\i386 without the subfolder.
any idea?- Re: how to copy the i386 by Odi 09.02.02
Please refer to the excessive documentation. Thanks.
- Version 1.72 is out by Odi 03.02.02
The new version fixes a small bug in LREN and supports developers that don't use Microsoft Compilers.
Odi - "Falsche" 8.3-Namen nach LCOPY von CD by Klaus 02.02.02
Hallo Odi,
durch einen Hinweis in der c't kam ich zu deinen guten Tools, die ich gerne für Backups einsetzen möchte.
LCOPY übernimmt von CD bei mir den "falschen" 8.3-Namen. Mein Test verlief so:
Testverzeichnis auf Harddisk:
D:\neuePCInfo\NotCD\x\test1>dir /a-d
Datenträger in Laufwerk D: 1L4_FAT16B
Seriennummer des Datenträgers: 373C-8B69
Verzeichnis von D:\neuePCInfo\NotCD\x\test1
A23456~2 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678B_REA.x
A23456~3 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678C_ARC.x
A23456~4 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678D_HID.x
A23456~5 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678E_SYS.x
A23456~6 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678F_NOR.x
VC BAT 38 20.01.02 16:45 vc.bat
VCX BAT 38 20.01.02 16:45 VCX.BAT
7 Datei(en) 266 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se) 180.355.072 Bytes frei
Die Dateien wurden mitteld WinOnCD gebrannt, und zwar mit ISO und
Joliet File System. Unter WINDOWS98 liefert die DOS-Box folgende Info:
V:\X\TEST1>dir /a-d
Datenträger in Laufwerk V: 0202012224
Seriennummer des Datenträgers: B16A-441B
Verzeichnis von V:\x\test1
A23456~6 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678B_REA.x
A23456~8 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678C_ARC.x
A2345~10 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678D_HID.x
A2345~12 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678E_SYS.x
A2345~14 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A2345678F_NOR.x
VCX BAT 38 20.01.02 16:45 VCX.BAT
VC BAT 38 20.01.02 16:45 vc.bat
7 Datei(en) 266 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se) 0 Bytes frei
Ich vermute, daß hier die Angaben von Joliet kommen. WinOnCD erzeugt offenbar neue 8.3-Namen.
Unter DOS (von der Notfalldiskette) erhalte ich folgendes:
V:\X\TEST1>dir /a-d
Datenträger in Laufwerk V: 0202012224
Verzeichnis von V:\X\TEST1
A23456~2 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~3 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~4 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~5 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~6 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
VC BAT 38 01-20-02 4:45p
VCX BAT 38 01-20-02 4:45p
7 Datei(en) 266 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se) 0 Bytes frei
Die 8.3-Namen sehen hier GUT aus, d.h. wie ursprünglich auf der Harddisk, soweit ich das verstehe, sind das die ISO-Namen.
Nach der Kopie mittels LCOPY /K .... von der CD auf die Harddisk erhalte ich folgende Namen:
D:\NeuePCInfo\NotCD\x\x>dir /a-d
Datenträger in Laufwerk D: 1L4_FAT16B
Seriennummer des Datenträgers: 373C-8B69
Verzeichnis von D:\neuePCInfo\NotCD\x\x
LCOPY EXE 66,853 12-12-01 10:19p LCOPY.EXE
A23456~6 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p A2345678B_REA.x
A23456~8 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p A2345678C_ARC.x
A2345~10 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p A2345678D_HID.x
A2345~12 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p A2345678E_SYS.x
A2345~14 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p A2345678F_NOR.x
VCX BAT 38 01-20-02 4:45p VCX.BAT
VC BAT 38 01-20-02 4:45p vc.bat
X X 0 02-02-02 9:16p x.x
9 Datei(en) 67,119 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se) 180,191,232 Bytes frei
Mein Problem: Der Weg von Harddisk auf CD mittels WinOnCD und zurück
mittels LCOPY /K verändert die 8.3-Namen. Da das Windows-System in der
Registry teilweise die 8.3-Namen notiert, ergibt sich ein Problem beim
Zurücksichern von CD.
Gibt es einen Switch für LCOPY, der mir die "richtigen" 8.3-Namen erzeugt?
Über einen Hinweis werde ich mich sehr freuen.
Klaus- Re: Kein Fehler by Odi 02.02.02
Hallo Klaus
Deine Wunsch ist: Bei einem Backup auf CD-R bleiben die 8.3 Namen erhalten.
Ich muss dich enttäuschen - das wird mit Joliet nie möglich sein.
Das hat einen einfachen Grund:
+--------+
|Mangel 1|
+--------+
Joliet merkt sich die ursprünglichen 8.3 Namen nicht.
Joliet definiert selbst, wie die 8.3 Namen auf einer CD zu vergeben
sind. Man hat beim Brennen also gar keine Wahl wie die 8.3-Datei
nachher auf der CD heisst.
Man fragt sich mit gutem Grund warum dieses Dateisystem ausgerechnet so
spezifiziert wurde. Immerhin ist es eine Erfindung aus dem Hause
Microsoft...
[
Die Dateien werden im Directory fortlaufend in 2er Schritten
nummeriert. Die Zählung beginnt bei 6. Verzeichnisse erhalten nochmal
andere Nummern.
]
Was dir DIR in der DOS Box anzeigt sind die physikalisch gespeicherten Namen unter Joliet.
Was dir DIR im DOS Modus anzeigt, ist etwas beschönigtes und entspricht nicht der Realität.
Beim Kopieren auf die Harddisk passiert nun wieder eine Umbenennung
(auch unter Windows): Der Alias wird im Zielverzeichnis neu generiert
gemäss dem Microsoft-Algorithmus.
LCOPY verhält sich hier seit 1.70 ein wenig anständiger. Es lässt 8.3
Dateinamen von CD auf Wunsch (/K) unangetastet. Nur hilft dir das nix,
weil die Dateinamen bereits beim Brennen verloren gingen.
Welchen 8.3 Namen die Dateien nachher auf der Platte bekommen hängt von der Reihenfolge des Kopierens ab.
Und warum stört uns das?
+--------+
|Mangel 2|
+--------+
Windows benützt nicht durchgängig nur lange Dateinamen. Es schafft so Inkosistenzen.
Tut mir leid dass ich nicht helfen kann.
Odi- Re: Hilfe mittels ISO 9660 ? by Klaus 03.02.02
Hallo Odi
Deine Antwort erklärt mir vieles. Eine Hoffnung habe ich noch, nachdem
ich eine CD mit nur ISO 9660 brannte. Nach dem Brennen zeigte die
Windows DOS-Box folgendes:
V:\X\TEST1>dir /a-d
Datenträger in Laufwerk V: WIN98_NOTCD
Seriennummer des Datenträgers: 8E93-6AD8
Verzeichnis von V:\X\TEST1
A23456~2 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A23456~2.X
A23456~3 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A23456~3.X
A23456~4 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A23456~4.X
A23456~5 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A23456~5.X
A23456~6 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 A23456~6.X
VC BAT 38 20.01.02 16:45 VC.BAT
VCX BAT 38 20.01.02 16:45 VCX.BAT
7 Datei(en) 266 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se) 0 Bytes frei
Unter Nur-DOS gebootet wurde gezeigt:
V:\X\TEST1>dir /a-d
Datenträger in Laufwerk V: WIN98_NOTCD
Verzeichnis von V:\X\TEST1
A23456~2 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~3 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~4 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~5 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~6 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
VC BAT 38 01-20-02 4:45p
VCX BAT 38 01-20-02 4:45p
7 Datei(en) 266 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se) 0 Bytes frei
Das läßt hoffen, daß die 8.3-Namen im ISO 9660 nicht zufällig sind (wie
ich aus Deiner Antwort herausgelesen habe), sondern eins zu eins.
Dann kopierte ich mit LCOPY /K auf die Harddisk und erhielt angezeigt unter Nur-DOS:
D:\NEUEPCIN\NOTCD\X\X>dir /a-d
Datenträger in Laufwerk D: 1L4_FAT16B
Seriennummer des Datenträgers: 373C-8B69
Verzeichnis von D:\NEUEPCIN\NOTCD\X\X
LCOPY EXE 66,917 02-02-02 7:50p
ISODOS DIR 494 02-03-02 1:37p
A23456~2 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~3 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~4 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~5 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
A23456~6 X 38 01-20-02 4:45p
VC BAT 38 01-20-02 4:45p
VCX BAT 38 01-20-02 4:45p
ISODOSN DIR 0 02-03-02 1:39p
10 Datei(en) 67,677 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se) 178,618,368 Bytes frei
Das gleiche Verzeichnis unter Windows DOS-Box sieht so aus:
D:\neuePCInfo\NotCD\x\x>dir /a-d
Datenträger in Laufwerk D: 1L4_FAT16B
Seriennummer des Datenträgers: 373C-8B69
Verzeichnis von D:\neuePCInfo\NotCD\x\x
LCOPY EXE 66.917 02.02.02 19:50 LCOPY.EXE
A23456~2 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 ______
A23456~3 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 _____________
A23456~4 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 _____________
A23456~5 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 _____________
A23456~6 X 38 20.01.02 16:45 _____________
VC BAT 38 20.01.02 16:45 VC.BAT
VCX BAT 38 20.01.02 16:45 VCX.BAT
8 Datei(en) 67.183 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se) 178.585.600 Bytes frei
Meine Hoffnung: wenn LCOPY beim Lesen von CD die Langnamen von Joliet
und die 8.3-Namen von ISO 9660 kombiniert, müßte mittels LCOPY das
erste GUTE Backup/Restore Tool mit allen Freiheiten zum selektiven
Restore ohne Probleme für die 8.3-Namen verfügbar sein!!!. Was spricht
dagegen?
Gruß, Klaus.
N.B. LCOPY erzeugte Langnamen, die aus Unterstrichen bestehen (s.o.).
Ich hatte erwartet, daß keine Langnamen erzeugt werden, da ja
ursprünglich auch keine im ISO 9660 vorhanden waren.
Auch hat Windows ein Problem mit diesen Langnamen. Ich konnte sie nicht mit einfachem DEL löschen.
- Windows-Backup by Tobias 31.01.02
Hallo!
Ich habe gerade dieses perfekte Programm gefunden - vielen Dank an ODI :-))
Ich weiß zwar, dass ich diese Frage erst NACH dem Ausprobieren stellen
sollte, aber ich frage einfach mal vorher, da nichts im Manual steht:
Wenn ich ein Backup meines Windows-Verzeichnisses machen möchte, liegen
da ja VERSTECKTE, SCHREIBGESCHÜTZTE & SYSTEM-Dateien &
Verzeichnisse drin.
Wenn ich die Dateien jetzt auf CD brenne und nachher wieder auf eine
Festplatte überspielen will, wird laut Manual der Schreibschutz NICHT
mitkopiert ...
Was ist denn mit Dateien, die einen Schreibschutz haben?
Werden System-Dateien mitkopiert und deren Attribut behalten?
Vielen Dank
Tobias- Re: Windows-Backup by Odi 02.02.02
Joliet weist so viele Mängel auf dass es sich eigentlich überhaupt
nicht eignet, Dateien aus einem Windows-Dateisystem zu speichern.
+--------+
|Mangel 1|
+--------+
Joliet kennt weder Read-Only noch System Attribut
Es kennt nur Hidden.
Weitere Mängel findest du im Follow-up zum Posting: Falsche 8.3 Namen
- Files with no extension cannot be copied from a CD by Anthony 28.01.02
There is a bug when copying files from a CD when they have no suffix.
When the destination file is created, a dot '.' is appended to the file name.
Windows does not accept files with a dot at the end. So it does create an invalid entry and the file cannot be deleted.
for example :
lcopy %cdrom%:\test\filewithnosuffix c:\test
this file appear with the name 'filewithnosuffix.'
Cordially, Anthony- Re: Files with no extension cannot be copied from by Odi 02.02.02
Although I have never seen this on my machine I have just implemented a fix for this specific issue.
Before a file is written to disk trailing dots are stripped from its long name.
Odi- The problem is still there in the 1.73 but... by Anthony 13.02.02
Hello,
The problem is still there in the 1.73 but only when i burn the CD with CDRWin(I used v3.8b).
I did a test with a CD burned with Nero, there is no problem.
I tried every charater sets with Nero (ISO9660, ASCII and DOS), and there is no problem.
Apparently with CDRWIN the character set cannot be chosen.
Kind Regards,
Anthony Breneliere
- Data saving after Windows crash by François 25.01.02
Thank you Odi for your wonderfull tools!
Maybe this will be usefull to others: after a windows crash, i transferred my*.doc, *.dbx etc as following:
1) make a restore directory
2) lcopy all my *.doc etc in it
3) with lfndos (sorry) and pkzip 2.50, make a restore.zip
4) with fastlynx, transfer it on another PC (you need to zip it because fastlynx doesn't handle long filenames)
5) unzip it
By the way, is there a way to keep the directory structure only for matching files ?
Thanks again for your work and sorry for my poor english - crazy partition by bartek 25.01.02
hello everybody,
cast: 1 hdd with 2 partitions & myself
director: w95osr2
scene 1. something hapend to my hdd. w95 is unable to access the second
partition. it says "unformatted. do you want to format it now?"
scene 2. when I boot in pure dos mode I can access the second
partition, copy, delete etc. I backup all datas but without long
filenames of course.
scene 3. I find LCOPY and use it. my blood pressure goes higher. LCOPY
terminates before it actually starts with a message: "Abnormal[50]" (or
similar; I'm not at home and I can't cite it accurately, sorry).
[rethoric?] question: is it possible to use your tool at situation like
that? I described my problem on computernet forum and one person said
that vfat table was damaged, which didn't influence at pure dos mode.
I'm quite happy right now because I lost only long filenames actually.
but I would like to know if there is any way to recover them also
before I simply reformat my drive. do you have any ideas? or maybe you
can suggest another tool that could manage with that partition?
best wishes,
bartek- Re: crazy partition by Odi 27.01.02
No, you can not use LFN Tools on a
corrupted file system. LFN Tools are designed to trust in the data the file system provides. They are NOT a recovery tool.
Odi- Re: crazy partition by (unknown) 29.01.02
ok, thanks
bartek
- NTFS by Paul 23.01.02
Is LCOPY compatible with NTFSDOS? I'm trying to find a utility that
will permit me to copy onto/from NTFS partitions using a DOS boot disk,
and I'm wondering if this is it...- Re: NTFS by Odi 24.01.02
> Is LCOPY compatible with NTFSDOS?
I haven't tried. But people say it's not.
- Space by Nick 21.01.02
Very useful tools you have here! Keep up the good work.
One question:
How can we specify a directory name or a file name that contains the "space" character?
ex.
lcd c:\My Documents
lcopy c:\My Documents
etc.
I tried using the 8.3 file name but it doesn't work.- Re: Space by Nick 21.01.02
Sorry, oops...
I found it in the readme.txt
It works ok.
Thanks again for this utility.
> Very useful tools you have here! Keep up the good work.
>
> One question:
> How can we specify a directory name or a file name that contains the "space" character?
>
> ex.
> lcd c:\My Documents
> lcopy c:\My Documents
> etc.
>
> I tried using the 8.3 file name but it doesn't work.
- Joliet und ISO9660 Dateisysteme nicht synchronisie by Ghostbuster 16.01.02
Nun leider kommt bei mir mit ldir immer die Meldung : "Joliet und ISO9660 Dateisysteme nicht synchronisiert"
Hat jemand ne Ahnung ?
Danke. - Anmerkung zu LDEL by Eckhard 11.01.02
Die Version 1.71 von LDEL kann ja auch Dateien in Unterverzeichnissen
löschen. Die leeren Verzeichnisse und versteckten Dateien aber nicht.
Also muß noch ein Deltree hinterhergeschoben werden. Ich mache mit
LCopy einmal wöchentlich ein Komplettbackup des Windows-Verzeichnisses.
Das sind ca 650MB bei mir in genau 7768 Dateien. Wenn ich gleich nach
dem Backup das gerade erzeugte Verzeichnis mit LDEL 1.71 lösche, löscht
er mir genau 5609 Dateien. Es bleiben also 2159 Dateien übrig, die
nicht gelöscht wurden(ca. 75MB).
Ich habe folgenden Aufruf verwendet:
LDEL e:\win_Back\* /s /a
Auch wenn einige von den 2159 versteckte Dateien sind, bleiben doch
jede Menge Dateien übrig, die nicht gelöscht wurden. Bei kleineren
Verzeichnissen kommt das übrigens nicht vor. Ansonsten finde ich LDEL
Klasse, da das normale DELTREE ca. 2 Stunden (trotz Smartdrv) zum
löschen braucht, LDEL jedoch nur 7 min, also genauso schnell wie
Windows ist, aber unter DOS.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Eckhard- scheinbar Systemverzeichnisse by Eckhard 11.01.02
Es scheinen sich um Systemverzeichnisse zu handeln die nicht gelöscht
wurden. Worin besteht die Logik, die von der Löschaktion auszunehmen?
Schließlich kopiert LCopy auch Systemdateien/versteckte Dateien.
mfg
Eckhard- Re: scheinbar Systemverzeichnisse by Odi 14.01.02
> Worin besteht die Logik, die von der Löschaktion auszunehmen?
Schließlich kopiert LCopy auch Systemdateien/versteckte Dateien.
Das habe ich mich eigentlich auch schon gefragt, als ich es so
implementiert habe. Ich hab' nämlich nachgeschaut was DEL genau alles
löscht. Damit bringt man auch keine System-Objekte weg. :-( Aber du
hast recht. Man sollte es eigentlich erlauben per Schalter. Wäre was
für die nächste Version.
Danke
Odi- Re: scheinbar Systemverzeichnisse by Eckhard 20.01.02
Mit LDEL Systemdateien und versteckte Dateien löschen wäre gut. Zur
Zeit löscht LDEL auch keine normale Dateien, die in einem
Systemverzeichnis (z.B. Temporary Internet Files) oder in einem
versteckten Verzeichnis (z.B. Sysbckup) sind. Und zu guter letzt könnte
LDEL die leeren Verzeichnisse löschen.
Ich hoffe, das war nicht zuviel des Guten? Dann wäre endgültig alles weg.
mfg :-))
Eckhard
- 32-bit dpmi dos boot from floppy by mike risch 08.01.02
whoa - this site is excellent. it enables long filename support under dpmi dos in win9x. thanks! - a contribution is in order.
i have found a way to boot from a single floppy to a 32-bit dpmi dos
environment under windows me. for details visit my site at
http://www.winimize.com and check out XDos Files. - Dateisysteme nicht synchronisiert (49) by Frank 05.01.02
Wenn ich meine auf CD gebrannten Dateien und Verzeichnisse unter DOS
mit LDIR anzeigen will erhalte ich die Meldung: Joliet und ISO 9660
Dateisysteme nicht synchronisiert! (49). Wie erhalte ich beim brennen
synchrone Dateisysteme.- Re: Dateisysteme nicht synchronisiert (49) by Odi 07.01.02
> Wie erhalte ich beim brennen synchrone Dateisysteme.
Eigentlich würde ich lieber fragen: Was tust du, dass die Dateisysteme NICHT synchron sind?
Alle CD's die mir bis jetzt untergekommen sind, haben synchrone ISO und Joliet Systeme.
Mit welcher Software brennst du? Was für ein Format? Achte besonders auf eventuelle Sortierfunktionen!
Odi
- DPW Unglaubwürdig??? by Tim 04.01.02
Was bedeutet daS???- Re: DPB Unglaubwürdig??? by Odi 07.01.02
DPB = Disk Parameter Block
Mit LCHK kannst du feststellen was der enthält. Ich wäre an einer kopie interessiert. Bitte mailen an lfn@odi.ch.
Die LFN Tool prüfen die Werte im Bootsektor auf Plausibilität. Seltsame
Werte deuten auf ein defektes oder nicht-unterstützes Dateisystem hin.
Odi
- lcopy by Lawrence Schipper 03.01.02
Do you have any plans to add a switch similar to the /d:mm-dd-yyyy,
found in "xcopy" of DOS? This would permit "lcopy" to perform file
synchronization between two computers.
I do this at least several times a year using a removeable hard drive
(Syjet) as both a medium of exchange between my desktop and laptop, and
as an archive/backup technique.
I also want to express my appreciation for the effort that you put into developing these very useful tools.- Re: lcopy by Odi 07.01.02
> /d:mm-dd-yyyy
I hadn't thought of that one actually. This doesn't sound too hard. I will look into it and I promise it for the next release.
Coming soon
Odi
- CDROM und LCOPY by (unknown) 29.12.01
ich stelle fest, dass folgendes mit LCOPY 1.71 unkompatibel ist, wenn die Source eine CDROM ist.
(a) DOSKEY
es gibt eine Fehlermeldung DISK FULL und ________________
Abhilfe: DOSKEY nicht verwenden.
(b) SMARTDRV G
es gibt eine Fehlermeldung CDROM "Read Error" (13) und ______________
Abhilfe: SMARTDRV G-
Bemerkung: G- macht LCOPY sowieso schneller. (G: ist mein CDROM).
SMARTDRV und noch ein paar smarties sind nötig, um das Kopieren schnell
zu machen. Die geannten Dinger funktionieren hingegen, wenn die Source
auf Disk ist.- Re: CDROM und LCOPY by Odi 03.01.02
Danke für die Hinweise.
Ich rate sowieso dringend davon ab, Smartdrive oder andere DOS
Disk-Caches mit den LFN Tools zu verwenden. Es kann sich eigentlich nur
in die Quere kommen, da die LFN Tools einen eigenen sehr schnellen und
grossen Cache verwenden. Am besten Smartdrive ganz weglassen!- Re: CDROM und LCOPY by (unknown) 03.01.02
> Danke für die Hinweise.
>
> Ich rate sowieso dringend davon ab, Smartdrive oder andere DOS
Hallo "odi", der DOSKEY Fehler hat nichts mit smartdrv usw. zu tun. Der
andere Fehler hat damit zu tun, aber smartdrv macht das Kopieren sehr
viel schneller. Nach meinen timings drückt smartdrv die Kopierzeit, mit
LCOPY, für 200MByte von 12 Minuten auf 5 Minuten. Es muss aber passend
parametriert werden, damit es schneller geht. Insbesondere braucht es
smartdrv [] G- und LCOPY [] /V .
Mit Gruss- Re: CDROM und LCOPY by Odi 07.01.02
> Nach meinen timings drückt smartdrv die Kopierzeit, mit LCOPY, für 200MByte von 12 Minuten auf 5 Minuten.
Schön wenn's funktioniert... Ich werde das jedenfalls schön bleiben lassen. Da hab ich zu viel Angst :-)
Odi
- Re: CDROM und LCOPY by (unknown) 30.12.01
Selbstverständlich möchte ich noch anfügen, dass mir LCOPY sehr dient.
Es funktioniert sehr gut. Der obige Bericht ist eher dazu, dass es
meine CDROM auch dann liest, wenn ich sie brauche...
- Backup Operating System by dspear 28.12.01
LCOPY allows a quick way to backup your Windows operating system.
First, clean up all the junk from your drive, such as
windows\temp\
windows\Temporary Internet Files\
the recycle bin
There are plenty of programs that do this well.
Next, reduce your swap file to say 20MB. Key...
Control Panel\System\Performance\Virtual Memory\
Make the minimium and maximium 20MB
Pass all the warnings and allow the reset.
Now make a folder, preferable on a different drive or partition from C: say
d:\winold\
Copy all folders you want to back up into winold, ie
c:\Program Files\ to d:\winold\Program Files\
You can also copy folders from other drives here now. After you restore
windows, you'll restore them to those drives, so keep track of where
they came from.
Do NOT copy the c:\windows or c: root files there yet. However make a folder d:\winold\windows\
For safety, put LCOPY.EXE on your boot disk as well as in d:\winold\
Now, here we go. With the boot disk in drive a: reset and boot to real-mode DOS. Make sure you can access your CD just in case.
Now key...
a:\lcopy c:\ d:\winold /a
a:\lcopy c:\windows\* d:\winold\windows /a /s
The first line copies all the c: root files (but no folders) to
d:\winold\
The second line copies the entire c:\windows\ folder and subfolders to
d:\winold\windows\
Now you can reboot back to windows and make sure everything was copied correctly. If you wish, you can burn d:\winold\ to a CD.
The best part of this is how easy it is to restore the operating system. Reboot to the boot disk and type (Gulp)
a:\FORMAT c:
Important: Once you do this, everything on your c: drive will be lost forever. You did triple check before doing it.
Now restore your original operating system with
a:\lcopy j:\winold\* c: /a /s
That's it. This one command does the entire restore! When you reboot, you'll be back to where you backed up. - Updates by Odi 12.12.01
The website was just updated. I made a few enhancements under the hood:
- Information about new releases is now displayed automatically.
- A simple bug tracking database was added.
- Design supports skins now. I should provide some skins soon. :-)
Enjoy and use my nitty gritty guestbook too!
Odi - Thank you Odi by Toodles 12.12.01
Just wanted to say thanks for the cool software. I found out about it
from the Techw0rm bootdisk, and they have been a lifesaver, LCOPY in
particular. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Toodles - Keine langen Dateinamen mehr auf meine CD-ROM by Hans Abletshauser 12.12.01
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
ich besitze einen Notebook Toshiba Satellite 100CS. Über die
Docking-Station habe ich ein externes CD-ROM-Laufwerk von Noveca
angeschlossen (8x). Den Treiber V2.29 lade ich in der CONFIG.SYS
(DEVICEHIGH=C:\RAPCDATA\RAPCD.SYS /D:RAPCD001 /L:GR /Q:1). Beim
Hochfahren des Rechners wird das CD-ROM-Laufwerk auf vom Bios erkannt.
Außerdem ist der Rechner über eine PCMCIA-Karte mit einem Novell-Server
verbunden.
Wenn ich nun im Explorer das CD-ROM-Laufwerk aufmache, habe ich keine
langen Dateinamen, obwohl solche auf der Festplatte richtig angezeigt
werden. Von diesem Problem ist nur das CD-ROM-Laufwerk betroffen, nicht
die Festplatte! Damit kann ich natürlich auch keine Software von einer
CD laden, weil bei der Installation lange Dateinamen erwartet und nicht
gefunden werden.
Der neueste Treiber V2.29 von
http://www.martin-roettgen.de/html/computer/rap/ brachte leider auch
keinen Erfolg. Auch das Tool CD_RAW.EXE der Uni Hamburg
http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/2kerse/sw/ konnte die langen
Dateinamen nicht hervorzaubern.
Wer kann mit helfen? Wer weiß einen Rat für mich?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Johannes Abletshauser
hansable@web.de- Re: Keine langen Dateinamen mehr auf meine CD-ROM by (unknown) 29.12.01
Hans
keine Ahnung, aber ist MSCDEX auch irgendwo geladen?
Und welches Windows läuft auf dem Notebook?
Und gibt es keinen Windows-Treiber, anstatt dem realmode DOS-Treiber?
Ist überhaupt ein Teiber nötig, oder würde das CD-Laufwerk nicht von
Windows automatisch erkannt? Ich habe schon einige CDROM und CD-R
angeschlossen und Windows hat das immer automatisch erkannt, ohne dass
ein besonderer zugehöriger Treiber vorhanden war.
- LCOPY by OT1 11.12.01
I have a problem with the last version LCOPY 1.70.
I copied a file from CD to a disk (D:). Long file name was OK but MS-DOS name was strange.
e.g.
On CD is a file with name: Long file name.txt (MS DOS name LONGFI~2.txt.
After copying I expected MS-DOS name LONGFI~1.txt but I got LONGFI~6.txt???
If I use LCOPY V.1.61 I got LONGFI~1.txt.- Re: LCOPY by Odi 12.12.01
As with version 1.71 this problem has been fixed.
Regards
Odi
- New Version 1.70 out by Odi 02.12.01
The latest version fixes some minor problems and adds a couple of handy features.
Please download it.
Odi - Falsche lange Dateinamen mit LCOPY by K. Salentin 12.11.01
Folgendes Problem tritt auf:
Ich habe mit LCOPY Version 1.61 ein (funktionierendes) Win95-System von
Platte I nach Platte II kopiert. Alles folgende bezieht sich auf Platte II.
Das System auf der neuen Platte ist vollständig und funktioniert. SCANDISK meldet keine Fehler.
LCHK-Ausgabe (Platte 2):
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Version 1.61
Copyright (C) 1999 Ortwin Glück
Dies ist freie Software unter der GPL. Siehe readme Datei für Details.
DOS Version: FF-7.10
Laufwerk: 2
Bytes pro Sektor: 512
Sektoren pro Cluster: 64
Anzahl Clusters: 64001
Anzahl FATs: 2 Anzahl Root Einträge: 512
Media Descriptor: f8
Sektoren pro FAT: 250
Sektoren / reserviert: 4096512 / 1
Erster Datensektor: 533
Erster Root Sektor/Cluster: 501/0
Root Sektoren: 32
FAT-Einträge pro Sektor: 256
Bezeichnung: BIGDOS menu
Dateisystem: FAT16
FAT32 kompatibler Zugriffsmodus wird benützt
Laufwerkssperrung wird benützt
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DIR in der DOS-Box von Win95 gibt für C:\ folgendes aus:
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Volume in drive C is BIGDOS
Volume Serial Number is 1651-0808
Directory of C:\
ARBEIT <DIR> 09-10-98 10:50p ARBEIT
BACKUP <DIR> 09-26-00 6:43p BACKUP
BAT <DIR> 09-05-98 8:18p BAT
COMMPRO <DIR> 01-17-99 2:30p COMMPRO
COREL <DIR> 01-16-00 2:23p Corel
CUWRITER <DIR> 11-11-98 10:22p CUWRITER
DNEU <DIR> 09-06-98 3:34p DNEU
DOS <DIR> 09-05-98 5:43p DOS
EIGENE~1 <DIR> 02-13-99 3:44p Eigene Dateien
EINBETT <DIR> 09-11-98 10:44p EINBETT
HPLASER <DIR> 01-04-01 8:37p HPLASER
INSTALL W95 <DIR> 11-09-01 12:13a INSTALL.W95
IOMEGA <DIR> 09-05-98 8:09p IOMEGA
LEXIKA <DIR> 03-14-99 10:05a LEXIKA
LJ825 <DIR> 01-04-01 8:41p lj825
MULTIM~1 <DIR> 01-19-99 8:19p Multimedia Files
MYFILES <DIR> 09-18-98 9:51p MyFiles
MYMUSI~1 <DIR> 05-03-01 9:00p My Music
NAVISW <DIR> 12-06-98 11:18a NAVISW
PR <DIR> 09-10-98 10:26p PR
PROG <DIR> 09-17-98 7:08p PROG
PROGRA~1 <DIR> 09-16-98 10:34p Program Files
PROGRA~2 <DIR> 10-01-98 9:13p Programme
STEPUP <DIR> 09-16-98 8:50p STEPUP
SYSTEM <DIR> 02-11-01 8:09p SYSTEM
TEAC <DIR> 09-08-98 4:41p TEAC
TESTDIR <DIR> 11-10-01 9:05p TESTDIR
TMP <DIR> 10-19-98 6:34p TMP
UTIL <DIR> 09-15-98 9:24p UTIL
W95 <DIR> 09-16-98 10:34p W95
WP51 <DIR> 09-05-98 8:21p WP51
XTG <DIR> 09-05-98 8:16p XTG
AUTOEXEC BAK 443 01-16-00 2:15p AUTOEXEC.BAK
AUTOEXEC BAT 456 11-07-01 9:10a AutoExec.Bat
AUTOEXEC BA~ 443 01-16-00 2:15p AUTOEXEC.BA~
AUTOEXEC DOS 353 09-08-98 4:48p AUTOEXEC.DOS
COMMAND COM 93,812 08-24-96 10:11a COMMAND.COM
COMMAND DOS 57,377 05-31-94 6:22a COMMAND.DOS
CONFIG BAK 479 09-17-99 7:56p CONFIG.BAK
CONFIG DOS 483 04-27-00 9:49p CONFIG.DOS
CONFIG SYS 450 11-07-01 9:10a CONFIG.SYS
MSDOS BAK 1,634 09-18-98 8:55p MSDOS.BAK
MSDOS SYS 1,646 11-07-01 9:36a MSDOS.SYs
MSDOS SY_ 1,646 11-07-01 9:00a MSDOS.SY_
MSDOS SY~ 1,646 04-14-99 8:47a MSDOS.SY~
NETLOG TXT 547 09-16-98 10:34p NETLOG.TXT
PDOXUSRS NET 13,030 01-17-00 7:52p PDOXUSRS.NET
SCANDISK LOG 955 10-26-01 9:38a SCANDISK.LOG
SMART 39 09-17-99 7:55p SMART
SUMMARY DAT 0 04-09-00 9:19p summary.dat
18 file(s) 175,439 bytes
32 dir(s) 303,235,072 bytes free
---------------------------------------------------------------
Kurze und lange Dateinamen stimmen hiernach überein. SCANDISK meldet
für das Laufwerk keine Fehler. Soweit ist noch alles beruhigend.
ABER:
=====
LDIR Version 1.61 unter reinem DOS zeigt nun an:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Datenträger in Laufwerk C: mit Namen BIGDOS
Verzeichnis C:\
BIGDOS <LABEL> 11.08.2001 00:55 BIGDOS
MSDOS .SY~ 1646 04.14.1999 08:47 MSDOS.SY~
COMMAND .COM 93812 08.24.1996 10:11 COMMAND.COM
TESTDIR . <DIR> 11.10.2001 21:05 TESTDIR
DOS . <DIR> 09.05.1998 17:43 IO.DOS
STEPUP . <DIR> 09.16.1998 20:50 MSDOS.DOS
SYSTEM . <DIR> 02.11.2001 20:09 COMMAND.DOS
DNEU . <DIR> 09.06.1998 15:34 BOOTLOG.TXT
IOMEGA . <DIR> 09.05.1998 20:09 SUHDLOG.DAT
XTG . <DIR> 09.05.1998 20:16 SCANDISK.LOG
BAT . <DIR> 09.05.1998 20:18 AUTOEXEC.BA~
TEAC . <DIR> 09.08.1998 16:41 PDOXUSRS.NET
WP51 . <DIR> 09.05.1998 20:21 CONFIG.DOS
PR . <DIR> 09.10.1998 22:26 AUTOEXEC.DOS
ARBEIT . <DIR> 09.10.1998 22:50 CONFIG.SYS
EINBETT . <DIR> 09.11.1998 22:44 MSDOS.---
UTIL . <DIR> 09.15.1998 21:24 CONFIG.BAK
W95 . <DIR> 09.16.1998 22:34 W95
BACKUP . <DIR> 09.26.2000 18:43 MSDOS.BAK
CUWRITER. <DIR> 11.11.1998 22:22 NETLOG.TXT
PROG . <DIR> 09.17.1998 19:08 BOOTLOG.PRV
COMMPRO . <DIR> 01.17.1999 14:30 SYSTEM.1ST
NAVISW . <DIR> 12.06.1998 11:18 logo.sys
TMP . <DIR> 10.19.1998 18:34 ffastun.ffl
LEXIKA . <DIR> 03.14.1999 10:05 AUTOEXEC.BAK
HPLASER . <DIR> 01.04.2001 20:37 DETLOG.OLD
MSDOS .SY_ 1646 11.07.2001 09:00 MSDOS.SY_
CONFIG .SYS 450 11.07.2001 09:10 os ztwdt. fs
COMMAND .DOS 57377 05.31.1994 06:22 COMMAND.DOS
AUTOEXEC.BAT 456 11.07.2001 09:10 AutoExec.Bat
SCANDISK.LOG 955 10.26.2001 09:38 SCANDISK.LOG
AUTOEXEC.BA~ 443 01.16.2000 14:15 AUTOEXEC.BA~
PDOXUSRS.NET 13030 01.17.2000 19:52 PDOXUSRS.NET
CONFIG .DOS 483 04.27.2000 21:49 CONFIG.DOS
AUTOEXEC.DOS 353 09.08.1998 16:48 AUTOEXEC.DOS
CONFIG .BAK 479 09.17.1999 19:56 CONFIG.BAK
MSDOS .BAK 1634 09.18.1998 20:55 MSDOS.BAK
NETLOG .TXT 547 09.16.1998 22:34 NETLOG.TXT
MSDOS .SYS 1646 11.07.2001 09:36 MSDOS.SYs
AUTOEXEC.BAK 443 01.16.2000 14:15 AUTOEXEC.BAK
SMART . 39 09.17.1999 19:55 SMART
SUMMARY .DAT 0 04.09.2000 21:19 summary.dat
INSTALL .W95 <DIR> 11.09.2001 00:13 INSTALL.W95
PROGRA~1. <DIR> 09.16.1998 22:34 Program Files
MYFILES . <DIR> 09.18.1998 21:51 MyFiles
PROGRA~2. <DIR> 10.01.1998 21:13 Programme
MULTIM~1. <DIR> 01.19.1999 20:19 Multimedia Files
EIGENE~1. <DIR> 02.13.1999 15:44 Eigene Dateien
COREL . <DIR> 01.16.2000 14:23 Corel
LJ825 . <DIR> 01.04.2001 20:41 lj825
MYMUSI~1. <DIR> 05.03.2001 21:00 My Music
18 Dateien 175439 Bytes
32 Verzeichnisse
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Man beachte, daß den Verzeichnissen im oberen Teil falsche lange Dateinamen zugeordnet werden. Z.B.
TEAC . <DIR> 09.08.1998 16:41 PDOXUSRS.NET
Versuche ich nun erneut, eines der Verzeichnisse, etwa \TEAC, mit LCOPY
zu kopieren, erhalte ich die Meldung "Quellpfad nicht gefunden!".
Was ist hier passiert?
Noch ein Hinweis: nach langem Probieren habe ich folgendes Workaround
gefunden: Wenn ich das fragliche (mit LCOPY nicht kopierbare)
Verzeichnis unter Win95 mit einem langen Dateinamen (jenseits der
8.3-Konvention) umbenenne und ihm danach wieder seinen alten Namen
gebe, z.B.
"TEAC" -> "TEACjkhsgakjs dkjsdkjhsd kjdbjk kbd" -> "TEAC",
dann wird es von LDIR richtig angezeigt und läßt sich auch von LCOPY wieder kopieren.- Re: Falsche lange Dateinamen mit LCOPY by Odi 02.12.01
The problems have been fixed with the latest version 1.70 - Alle sind gut, aber verstehe ich nicht by multilingual 02.12.01
ein bischen english ist gut fur alle!
danke for your attention.
Viedersehen
- Lcopy by Hello 08.11.01
I used lcopy under DOS enviornment to copy my whole c drive to my d
drive. the command is "lcopy c:\*.* d:\ /y /r /a /s", the LCOPY copied
with 21140 files. I tried to boot up the windows from my d drive. It
works properly.
I checked the total file on the orginal hard disk is 21181 files and
found 41 files are missing. the 41 missing files are in different
directory and without the extension name. Your help appreciated!- Re: Lcopy by Odi 08.11.01
USE SINGLE ASTERIX!
If you had read the manual you would not have needed to ask.
wrong: lcopy c:\*.* d:\ /y /r /a /s
right: lcopy c:\* d:\ /y /r /a /s
*grrrr*
Odi- Re: Lcopy by hello 09.11.01
Thanks
> USE SINGLE ASTERIX!
>
> If you had read the manual you would not have needed to ask.
>
> wrong: lcopy c:\*.* d:\ /y /r /a /s
>
> right: lcopy c:\* d:\ /y /r /a /s
>
> *grrrr*
>
> Odi
- lcopy says: not enough memory by Hans-Jürgen 27.10.01
Lcopy ist really a great tool. But because of this desease
called MS-DOS memory doesn't suffice for copying
really big amounts of data. Dear Odi, perhaps memory
would suffice, if you would take out the data accumulating check-routines out of your software? But I don't know,
I'm not a programmer.- Re: lcopy says: not enough memory by Odi 31.10.01
> data accumulating check-routines
I did not even know that I put them in.... what is it? :-)
/v disables XMS
Odi - Re: lcopy says: not enough memory by Hans-Jürgen 29.10.01
My task was to get running LCOPY from DOS-boot-
floppy. I solved the memory-problem as follows:
config.sys:
[menu]
menuitem=NOCD, MS-DOS 7.1 without CD-ROM-Driver
(max. memory f. LCOPY)
menuitem=CD, MS-DOS 7.1 with CD-ROM-Driver
menudefault=NOCD,30
menucolor=7,0
[NOCD]
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
device=emm386.exe RAM
devicehigh=display.sys con=(ega,,1)
[CD]
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
device=emm386.exe RAM
devicehigh=display.sys con=(ega,,1)
devicehigh=oakcdrom.sys /D:CD000
[COMMON]
country=049,850,country.sys
files=60
buffers=20
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
lastdrive=z
autoexec.bat:
path=a:\;c:\WINDOWS\;c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
mode.com con cp prepare=((850) ega.cpi)
mode.com con cp select=850
LH keyb.com gr,,keyboard.sys
IF "%config%"=="NOCD" GOTO QUIT
LH MSCDEX.EXE /D:CD000
:QUIT
This way LCOPY copied ca. 7GB data between two
harddrives.
Hans-Jürgen Bittner
- Error Message: Disk Full by Thorsten 21.10.01
Hi,
i´m getting the error
message "disk full: can´t copy file ..."
although there is enough space
on the destination drive.
System: Win98SE
Thanks in advance.
Thorsten- Re: Error Message: Disk Full by (unknown) 29.12.01
> Hi,
> i´m getting the error
> message "disk full: can´t copy file ..."
> although there is enough space
> on the destination drive.
> System: Win98SE
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Thorsten
Ich bekomme die gleiche Meldung, wenn ich von CDROM auf Disk kopiere, und DOSKEY geladen habe.
Peter
- Great Tools by Happy 17.10.01
Shit, I DO NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEM TO POST HERE!!!
LFN Tools just work excellent, I was just able to clone my full-blown
Win98 installation from plain DOS. Took me 5 minutes. New partition
booted flawlessly.
Great stuff!
Tell me if you want to have my clone script.
web_smurf@hotmail.com- Re: Great Tools by Jeff Wells 23.02.02
Yes Please post your clone script, I would like to do the
same with my Win98.
Thanks
> LFN Tools just work excellent, I was just able to clone my
full-blown Win98 installation from plain DOS. Took me 5 minutes. New
partition booted flawlessly.
>
> Great stuff!
>
> Tell me if you want to have my clone script.
>
> web_smurf@hotmail.com
- LFN's on a mapped drive by brandon 14.10.01
from what I gather these toosl work by going around the o/s and
accesing the hardware directly. IS there a way to use LFN's on a mapped
network drive? (using msdos lanman)- Re: LFN's on a mapped drive by Odi 17.10.01
no
- Is there a 16 bit version? by Chris 10.10.01
I tried using ldir in MSDOS 6.22 running on an 80186 emulator running
on Windows CE and it hung the emulation. I can run PC Magazine's lfndir
but it fails when trying to read CE's directories reporting that FAT32
is not supported.- Re: Is there a 16 bit version? by Odi 10.10.01
LFN tools actually ARE 16-bit code.
Running it on an emulator seems quite of queer... The code was
optimized for 80286 though. So it won't run on your 186 emu. But if you
like I can recompile you a version that runs on 80186 too. Just send
email.- Re: Is there a 16 bit version? by (unknown) 10.12.01
I'm also interested in an 16bit
version of LFNtools.
I'm an HP 200LX Palmtop user
an 80186 CGA MSDOS5 in ROM 2Mb
ramdisk PCcard slot) and i'm
looking for manage LFNs at
64Mb CompactFlash card (FAT16)
that I use as hardisk and transport
to/from a WindowsCE machine for
backup purposes.
I'm aware of differences between
286 and 186 are only the lack of
protected mode. Most (if not all)
other opcodes are compatible.
Also be aware of: Most emulators for
WindowsCE machines are 8086 and
not 80186 emulation (no POPA or PUSHA
opcodes, often used especialy at any ISR).
I have just downloaded your
LFNtools but no time to test it at
palmtop. When I test it, I'll post
results.
Regards
J.Belmonte (jbmbhs@eresmas.com)
- Copy LFN hidden files? by Theddy 08.10.01
I want copy my whole c-drive under DOS whith Win98 and programs installed, to an new harddisk.
Normal xcopy does not copy hidden and system files.
Does LFN that?- Re: Copy LFN hidden files? by Odi 10.10.01
XCOPY does as well as LCOPY.
You should consider to look at the command line options.
XCOPY /H
or
LCOPY /A
- LCOPY enq by Gary Moore 04.10.01
Am trying to copy contents of a whole CD onto hard disk whilst under
DOS6.22 to circumvent a Windows boot problem. Both D: and C: obviously
feature lots of LFN stuff. Tried the following syntax:
c:> LCOPY D:\* C:\STUFF\ /S
Keep getting "Ambiguous DPB!(50)"
Have tried lots of combinations of command line stuff inside and outside quotes (yes, have RTFM), always same reply.
Help...?- Re: LCOPY enq by Odi 06.10.01
> Keep getting "Ambiguous DPB!(50)"
Your Filesystem is probably bad. LCOPY checks the Disk Parameter Block (DPB) aka the boot sector for stupid values.
You get this error if one of the following conditions is true:
- Bytes per Sector < 256 bytes
- Bytes per Sector > 64 KB
- Bytes per Sector is not a multiple of 256
- Sectors per Cluster > 1024 or = 0
- Number of FATs > 8
Please send output from LCHK on both drives to: lfn@odi.ch
HTH
Odi
- CD-ROM Copy woes... by CD-MAN 14.09.01
I am trying to find a utility that will allow me to copy lfn files from
a cdr to my local c-drive. "lfn tools (lcopy)" seems to work great,
until I try to read the copied directory on the C-drive (with LDir).
All of the long file names look like long lines of underscore
characters followed by a dot and more underscores for the extension
(the dos side of the directory looks ok). If I then boot up to Win9x
and view the files they appear the same "_______.___" or something like
that. HELP!- Re: CD-ROM Copy woes... by Odi 24.09.01
It seems that the Unicode Translation did not work properly. Try and
force ISO9660 (/i). Is it a ...erm... Chineese CD or what? Did you burn
it yourself? I assume that it uses a strange Unicode page.
Odi- Re: CD-ROM Copy woes... by CD-MAN 28.09.01
I will try the /i option, I hadn't tried it before.
It is a cd-r created by a commercial cd-burner package, if you would like to know which one, I would be glad to check for you.
Thanks!
CD-MAN
- Newbie Alert by John 06.09.01
OK I'm more then a newbie and feel like a duck out of water when I'm in DOS, so please bear with me.
I want to boot from a Windows98SE boot disk into a dos prompt I will
then want to copy my documents, Favs etc (on c partition) etc over to a
second physical HDD (j partition) so my question is do I just install
the LFN tools into it's own directory (c:\lfn) or do they get shoved
into windows folder somewhere? Also how do I copy all of my
document/Favs to the j drive? I have tried the following 1: changing to
c:\lfn and then typing "lcopy c:\ mydocu~1 *.* j:\ but this did not
work, I am running my main HDD on IDE3 (highpoint controller) and my
back up drive is on IDE4 the mainboard is a KT7A-Raid, any help or
suggestions would be helpful- Re: Newbie Alert by Odi 24.09.01
> the LFN tools into it's own directory (c:\lfn) or do they get shoved into > windows folder somewhere?
Doesn't matter. Put them where you like them to be.
> I have tried typing "lcopy c:\ mydocu~1 *.* j:\ but this did not work
Arrgh... RTFM !!!
- Lcopy by phil olsen 22.08.01
Here is what I am trying to do:
I used xcopy32 under windows to copy my whole c drive to my d drive.
Unfortunately I now need to do the reverse but I am stuck in a DOS
enviornment. LCOPY seems to be the tool but I'm not sure what the
swithc combo would be to get d: copied EXACTLY to c: Anyone know the
right command?
I was gonna try lcopy d:\*.* c:\ /s /a /r but this is A LOT of stuff
and I want to be sure everything ends up in the right directory. Your
help appreciated!- Re: Lcopy by Odi 30.09.01
lcopy d:\* c:\ /s /a /r
Mind the SINGLE asterix !
And: The mapping between DOS-Filenames and long filenames ist not guaranteed to be the same afterwards!
MICHAE~1.MP3 -> Michael Jackson - Bad.mp3
MICHAE~2.MP3 -> Michael Jackson - Dangerous.mp3
could be reversed so that:
MICHAE~2.MP3 -> Michael Jackson - Bad.mp3
MICHAE~1.MP3 -> Michael Jackson - Dangerous.mp3
This will be fixed in future versions.
Odi
- Direct ZIP creation. by Mike Duffy 14.08.01
Is there an easy way to use the LFN tools in conjunction with PKZIP or
Infozip in order to create a .zip file that can be used later from
Win32? (i.e. create and / or restore a backup of C:\ from "boot to dos"
or diskette bootup.)- Re: Direct ZIP creation. by J.Tigchelaar 02.09.01
Try LDZip. http://ldzip.freeservers.com
J.Tigchelaar
Author of LDZip
>Is there an easy way to use the LFN tools in conjunction with PKZIP
or Infozip in order to create a .zip file that can be used later from
Win32? (i.e. create and / or restore a backup of C:\ from "boot to dos"
or diskette bootup.)
- OT - Mailody by duke 13.08.01
Sorry for OT post.
Need to talk to you about Mailody.
Can you reply w/ email address? TIA...- Re: OT - Mailody by Odi 17.08.01
write to odi at odi DOT ch
- LCOPY copies directories, not files by Jonathan 07.08.01
First of all Thank You Odi for you excellent coding of this essential
utility. Now bear with me as I'm a DOS newbie (ver 7.10). I've been
attempting to backup "MY DOCUMENTS"
directory using this syntax: LCOPY
"C:\MY DOCUMENTS" "E:\MYDOCBCK" /S
I assumed that I could use the same syntax as XCOPY. The result is a
mirrored copy of the C:\ root directory structure in the E:\MYDOCBCK
directory with no files in any of the directories. So tell me what I'm
doing wrong so I can feel foolish, yet wiser.- Re: LCOPY copies directories, not files by Odi 08.08.01
LCOPY "C:\MY DOCUMENTS\*" "E:\MYDOCBCK" /S
Mind the asterix (*) at the end - it selects actual files.
Please read the manual carefully.
- Ambigous DPB!(50) by Patrick 06.08.01
Hi,
i would like to get some files from a remote computer to mine, using netbeui.
So, i create a virtual drive (with net use). And then, i copy the wanted files with this command:
c:\>LCOPY Z:\* D:\*
But it doesn't work, i have the following message:
AMBIGOUS DPB!(50)
Do you know what it means? How to sort out the situation?
Cheers, Patrick.
pjedor@hotmail.com- Re: Ambigous DPB!(50) by Odi 08.08.01
LFN Tools do not work with network drives.
Odi
- LFN reports more files and dirs than norm? by Brian 03.08.01
I cataloged a drive with the standard dir /a /s > filename and again
with ldir. I get reports of two different totals for number of files
and directories, what is LDIR counting that dir doesn't? I need to be
accurate because I am doing forensic processing.
Thanks.- Re: LFN reports more files and dirs than norm? by Odi 08.08.01
Which DOS Version do you have?- Re: LFN reports more files and dirs than norm? by Brian 10.08.01
>Which DOS Version do you have?
7.10
- LCD not work with networked drives! by john 28.07.01
I'm running Win98SE. I have a small network with mapped drives to other
Win98SE machines. LCD did not work when attempting to switch from a
local disk to a mapped drive.- Re: LCD not work with networked drives! by Odi 08.08.01
That is correct.
>From the latest FAQ:
Q: Can LFN Tools access a network drive?
A: No. LFN Tools need physical access to individual sectors of the drive. This is not
supported by DOS network drives.
Regards
Odi
- Danke by Peter 25.07.01
Hi Odi,
ich habe gerade ganz einfach mit lcopy die Installation meiner alten
Festplatte auf die neue überspielen können (der "übliche" Weg über
xcopy klappte aus unerfindlichen Gründen nicht).
Auch sonst nutze ich deine Tools immer wieder mal wenn ich im reinen DOS-Modus was machen will/muss.
Vielen Dank für *die* Tools auf die wir schon lange gewartet haben.
DOSLFNBK ist dagegen umständlicher in der Handhabung (das hab' ich
vorher für Backups unter DOS genutzt).
Oh, eine Frage fällt mir gerade ein. Kennt jemand eine Möglichkeit von
DOS aus eine CD zu brennen (ähnlich wie mit UDF), so daß man LCOPY für
Backups auf CD nutzen kann?
Nicht zuletzt ein dickes DANKE an Odi!!
Viele Grüße
Peter - not enough cache memory by meinereiner 13.07.01
Congratulation to your good work! These tools are very useful. But
sometimes i became the errormessage "not enough cache memory (4)" and
the LFN tools worked not any longer. What does it mean?- Re: not enough cache memory by W0rm 23.07.01
This means that the system you're using doesn't have enough EMS/XMS
memory in order to complete it's copying...I'm sure that if you shut
off the EMS/XMS cache (one of the options) that you'll no longer get
this error.
If you have no XMS manager installed (himem.sys) - then install one.
- W0rm
- http://dos.li5.org- Re: not enough cache memory by meinereiner 25.07.01
Thanks for the answer!
The advice "...install XMS manager (himem.sys)" was helpful and now the error message is not longer present.
meinereiner
- LFNFTP by W0rm 27.06.01
hrmmm, I was thinking - I've never really seen any good FTP client for
DOS...they're mostly command line interfaces (if at all)...heck, it's
hard just to find one that's any good at all.
I figure you could port one from *nix and add LFN support (since one
would need it, sending stuff like index.htm to a *nix server, not
INDEX.HTM) - maybe even add a GUI someday :)
- W0rm - Long File Names in Dos by Vishal Bansal 26.06.01
I am making a Windows Explorer like program for Dos. I don't know how
to work with Long File names in Dos. I am using Turbo C v3.0. Also tell
me the links where i can find useful source code in C and where i can
ask my programming related questions?
My email address is: vishalbansal2000@rediffmail.com - Cannot copy from CD-rom (Err13) by Tibi 24.06.01
I do not know why i'm getting this, in a 5-th level subdir, when i try to restore my Program files Directory to c:\ from CROM E:
If I run lcopy "E:\Program Files\*"
"C:\Program Files" /S /A /R /Y
then i run into (13) error after a couple of minutes.
But if I try to copy only the subdir: Lcopy "E:\Program Files\Common Files\*"
"C:\Program Files\Common Files" /S /A /R /Y, bang, no more errors!!
Please, tell me what is the problem?
I use hymem and smartdrv to speed up things.
Thanks!!- Re: Cannot copy from CD-rom (Err13) by Odi 30.09.01
LFN Tools seem to have timing problems with certain CD-ROMs sometimes.
Moreover I do NOT recommend using SmartDrive along with LFN Tools!
Odi
- Cannot copy from CD-rom (Err13) by Tibi 24.06.01
I do not know why i'm getting this, in a 5-th level subdir, when i try to restore my Program files Directory to c:\ from CROM E:
If I run lcopy "E:\Program Files\*"
"C:\Program Files" /S /A /R /Y
then i run into (13) error after a couple of minutes.
But if I try to copy only the subdir: Lcopy "E:\Program Files\Common Files\*"
"C:\Program Files\Common Files" /S /A /R /Y, bang, no more errors!!
Please, tell me what is the problem?
I use hymem and smartdrv to speed up things.
Thanks!! - scandisk error by Goose 09.06.01
nach dem kopieren von c nach d, kann ich unter windows me nicht mehr
auf d zugreifen. beim nächsten systemstart stürzt auch scandisk ab. die
diskid datei von c habe ich nicht auf d kopiert.
bitte um hilfe
danke - Re-Synchronizing Longfilenames and DOS Short names by Phil 08.06.01
Are you aware of any tools to help re-synchronize short and long filenames?
The problem is that short filenames are allocated sequentially ie.
abcde~1.txt abcde~2.txt and the order bears no relationship to the sort
order of the longfilename. Tools like LFNSORT can order the directory
on the long name, but I am looking for a tool to create new SHORT names
that follow the Long filename sort order.
I currently work around this by using a tool that can do multiple
renames with wildcards e.g. it can rename a*.* to 0*.* which renames
bot long and short filenames and then rename them back with 0*.* to
a*.*. This is a really clunky way of doing it, and I need to automate
the process. Any ideas? - how work with russian names? by Roman 06.06.01
no russian names.
At all can not find LFN with support
of russian names :-(
romans@ukrpost.net
please, send answer - LFN Tools works with 2d Portable Drive by ComputerSmith 22.05.01
I just completed successful testing of LCOPY to save the "My
Documents" folder to an external Castlewood ORB 2.2 GB portable drive (parallel port).
The test used a "Windows 98 Startup Diskette" to boot a new system
(built in 2000) "without CDROM support" - Pure DOS Mode. The ORB
"Traveler" driver was then loaded. All Long FileNamed sub folders and
files were then copied and the directory structure was preserved.
NOTE: This drive is the follow-on to the SyQuest line. More info at www.castlewood.com - LFN Tools works with Portable Drive! by ComputerSmith 21.05.01
I just completed successful testing of LCOPY to save the "My Documents"
folder to an external Syquest EZ-135 drive (parallel port).
The test used a "Windows 98 Startup Diskette" to boot an old (1993)
system without CDROM support. The Syquest "Visit" driver was then
loaded. All 35 MB of Long FileNamed sub folders and files were
then copied and the directory structure was preserved.
Decent! - merci by Peter aus Hannover 20.05.01
Hallo Odi,
Deine Tools sind wirklich klasse. Endlich kann ich
auf einfachem Wege mit einer DOS-Startdiskette
auch Win9x-Dateien auf mein MOD-Laufwerk sichern.
Das ist besondes hilfreich wenn man bei Freunden
ein neues System aufspielen will und die vorher die
Daten nicht gesichert haben.
Danke
P.S. Bin ueber die CT -Shareware-CD´s auf Deine
Tools gestossen. - nt and lren by kruger@nortelnetworks.com 01.05.01
I need to ren a group files in nt that have long file names.
I have a batch script that processes .ps files into _ps.pdf
unfortunate ly I cannot rename these files within the script because
the file names are very long. I cannot rename them in dos because
because the _ps portion is truncated.
any ideas on how to remove this?
thanks
Kruger@nortelnetworks.com- Re: nt and lren by Odi 18.05.01
What File System?
NTFS: not with LFN-Tools.
Maybe use Scripting Host and the FileSystem Object. Quite straight forward to use.
- LFN with Diskette? by Manabu 28.04.01
Hi.
Let me explain my situations:
I installed Win98 into the c: drive of the harddrive on one of
my PC's, and also installed good deal of software (apps &
programs).
Then I copied all the directories & files except for the swap file
to the d: drive on the same physical harddrive, because
I could restore the system by copying the files back to the
c: drive even though the system were to gronk out.
Yes, the proceedures are simple: I could and can format
the c: drive with a dos diskette like a Win98 startup diskette,
and then I only have to do copying the files to the c: drive
formatted.
The point is that I want to do the copying only with a diskette!
I copied xcopy32.exe, xcopy.exe and one more file into
the Win98 startup diskette and tried an xcopy32 command
with options for long filenames and so on, and with no success.
Specifically, none of the files with a long filename or none of
the ones downstream the root was copied because any of
the options typed did not work! I have verified these options
work fine with a dos under Win98 (dos box).
My question is:
Does LFN work on a dos booted from a diskette (like a Win98
startup disk) to copy files/directories with a complexed tree,
say like xcopy32 under Windows?
Thanks in advance.- Re: LFN with Diskette? by Odi 29.04.01
>Does LFN work on a dos booted from a diskette (like a Win98
>startup disk) to copy files/directories with a complexed tree,
>say like xcopy32 under Windows?
That's its single purpose!- Thanks Odi! by Manabu 30.04.01
Thank you for these cute things.
I copied them to the second disk of the Win98 bootup disk set.
- Dees by Manabu 29.04.01
Wow great, did the trick!
It helped me.
Thanks alot!
- LFN TSR driver by florianx 21.04.01
Hi!
Maybe this site will interest you:
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/freew.html
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/doslfn.zip
bye, flox
www.drdos.org
www.seal.de.vu- Re: LFN TSR driver by Andy 23.04.01
Hi. Is there an English readme for that doslfn?
>Hi!
>
>Maybe this site will interest you:
>http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/freew.html
>
>
>http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/doslfn.zip
>
>bye, flox
>www.drdos.org
>www.seal.de.vu- Re: LFN TSR driver by Laust Rud Jensen 28.04.01
The bottom of the Doslfn.txt file is in English. Gives a bit of information.
>Hi. Is there an English readme for that doslfn?
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Maybe this site will interest you:
>>http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/freew.html
- Danke by Peter 10.04.01
Hi Odi,
vielen Dank für deine tollen Tools! Die sind extrem hilfreich!!!
Viel Spaß und Erfolg weiterhin! - lcopy under DOS Client by Pieter 09.04.01
When copying files between devices on the same machine, lcopy works
fantastic! When trying to copy a file from one machine to another under
DOS client (mapped drive), I get the following message:
Error reading drive 5 sector 0 – 0!(0)
Could not read BPB!(16)
I have no clue what this means, other than that lcopy or ldir or any
other of the ltools can not find or access the mapped drive.
Should this work?- Re: lcopy under DOS Client by Odi 14.04.01
> (mapped drive), I get the following message:
>
>Error reading drive 5 sector 0 – 0!(0)
>Could not read BPB!(16)
LFN Tools do not work on network drives. Reason: No hardware access is possible over network.
Odi- Re: lcopy under DOS Client by Patrick 06.08.01
That's a pity... Is it totally impossible to develop or not?
>> (mapped drive), I get the following message:
>>
>>Error reading drive 5 sector 0 – 0!(0)
>>Could not read BPB!(16)
>
>
>LFN Tools do not work on network drives. Reason: No hardware access is possible over network.
>
>Odi- Re: lcopy under DOS Client by Odi 08.08.01
>That's a pity... Is it totally impossible to develop or not?
Nothing is impossible of course....
But putting the network stuff into my code would be an architectural
disaster. It would be better to (someone else) write a driver that can
access remote drives physically i.e. provide the exact same interface
via DOS interrupt 0x25h and 0x26h for remote drives. This would be
clean. Then the LFN Tools would not need to be changed. Moreover every
other software could use the drives as well. Even DOS itself!
Odi
- LDeltree? by Denis 02.04.01
There is no equivalent of Deltree in LFNTools!
It caould be implemented in lrd, like in WinNT: rd /S!
BTW, M$ deltree has a nice feature:
deltree c:\temp removes the whole c:\temp tree and
deltree c:\temp\ acts like the above but leaves the c:\temp directory
--
Denis- Re: LDeltree? by ComputerSmith 28.05.01
>There is no equivalent of Deltree in LFNTools!
>
>It caould be implemented in lrd, like in WinNT: rd /S!
>
>BTW, M$ deltree has a nice feature:
>deltree c:\temp removes the whole c:\temp tree and
>deltree c:\temp\ acts like the above but leaves the c:\temp directory
>--
>Denis
Since the Deltree version must match the DOS version you're working with, its better that LFNTools does NOT include it!- Re: LDeltree? by PackMule 31.05.01
>>There is no equivalent of Deltree in LFNTools!
>>
>>It caould be implemented in lrd, like in WinNT: rd /S!
>>
>>BTW, M$ deltree has a nice feature:
>>deltree c:\temp removes the whole c:\temp tree and
>>deltree c:\temp\ acts like the above but leaves the c:\temp directory
>>--
>>Denis
>
>Since the Deltree version must match the DOS version you're working with, its better that LFNTools does NOT include it!
There's a freeware utility called tdel that might do what you're looking for - http://tutils.cjb.net/tdel.htm
Luck, PM- Re: LDeltree? by Odi 04.03.02
As of version 1.75 you can use
LDEL C:\Temp\* /s /f
Regards
Odi
- LCOPY by Charlie 29.03.01
Works great on directories
with 8.3 names such as Windows
however, its giving me fits
on
lcopy c:\Program Files\* "D:\Program Foofs" /a/s/b
I've tried "C:\Program Files\*"
& "C:\Program Files\"*
& c:\"Program Files"\*
what if anything am I doing wrong here?- Re: LCOPY by Odi 02.04.01
>lcopy c:\Program Files\* "D:\Program Foofs" /a/s/b
>what if anything am I doing wrong here?
The correct syntax would be:
lcopy "c:\Program Files\*" "D:\Program Foofs" /a/s/b
BUT: make sure that the target directory exists! (even with the /s option)
Odi- Re: LCOPY by Don van McSon 14.06.01
BUT: make sure that the target directory exists! (even with the /s option)
>
>Odi
Warum muss das Ziel den schon vorhanden sein.. wenn ich z.B. Windows
sichern möchte, möchte mann doch nicht vorher jeden einelnen Ordner
anlegen.. ?!?
- scandisk report error after finished copying by dionicio 25.03.01
Dear Odi:
Before anything
Thanks a Lot for LFN..
The Best of the Best in tools.
There is a small situation
with the copying of the
long filename portion
of files containing the
right accent marked i character,
when copying is replaced with
a left accent marked a character,
it does not happen on the
8.3 portion of the name...
I cincunvent this event
making a seach of filenames
containing this left accent marked
a character and replacing it
by hand...
Thanks a lot.- Re: scandisk report error after finished copying by Odi 27.03.01
>right accent marked i character,
>when copying is replaced with
>a left accent marked a character,
>it does not happen on the
>8.3 portion of the name...
This is probably due to an unappropritate codepage setting in
your autoexec.bat
mode con codepage prepare=((437) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=437
should produce the correct codes.
unicode 0x00EC is mapped to 0x8D ASCII
Odi- CP 437 Boot Disk test completed by dionicio 29.03.01
Dear Odi:
I re-run the imaging of my
win 98 system using a
CP 437 boot disk incluiding
emm386.exe with all of Odi's Tools
and got same result.
As the OS does not include
any foregein character
on his filename lists
no problem on it.
Just some files
on MS Office gives me
a little extra work.
Just thinking in perfection.
Not quite a difficult
situation to overcome.
Using Odi's Tools forever.
:)- Re: CP 437 Boot Disk test completed by Odi 02.04.01
You are terribly right.
And I am terribly sorry.
There WAS a bug - in the reverse look-up codepage. It's fixed now.
Get Version 1.61
Regards
Odi- Re: Smootly mirroring now, thanks Odi! :) by dionicio 30.04.01
The startup disk with Odi's Tools
works perfectly now...
No need for CP or regionalitation
files¡...
Thanks a lot, Odi¡
- TSR driver by florianx 25.03.01
Hi!
Maybe it will interest you, I found another LFN TSR driver for DOS (not LFNDOS)(I haven't test it).
It's name is
DOSLFN.COM v1.0 - DOS Long Filename Support
Copyright (c) 1997 Network Associates, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
It is include into the NDN package...
Bye, florian
BTW: Schöne Grüße aus Wien :)- Re: TSR driver by Odi 27.03.01
>DOSLFN.COM v1.0 - DOS Long Filename Support
>Copyright (c) 1997 Network Associates, Inc.
>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
>
>It is include into the NDN package...
Hey cheers
but what the heck is NDN ???
Odi- Re: TSR driver by Vitali 31.03.01
>>DOSLFN.COM v1.0 - DOS Long Filename Support
>>Copyright (c) 1997 Network Associates, Inc.
>>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
>>
>>It is include into the NDN package...
>
>Hey cheers
>
>but what the heck is NDN ???
>
>Odi
http://ndnv.narod.ru/archives/NDNV210B.RAR
- Thanks Odi by Don C. (Australia) 23.03.01
Hi Odi et. al.,
Just a quick note of thanks for these great little utilities. I'll
certainly be informing my fellow IT workers of these tools. I use the
DJGPP tools for DOS/Win9x quite a lot, but these tools really add some
much needed functionality to the digital toolkit!
regards,
Don
P.S. Nice to see something coming out of Switzerland. - ldir options by chris 18.03.01
hi forum, hi odi
I quiet often use your precoius tools for backing up and saved a lot of time (and money?) using them.
But theres one thing which would be very useful (i think):
If the "ldir"-Tool whould have some more options. Maybe something like /on or /os and /ad (directorys only).
Its nothing absolutely necassary
but an idea.
CU &
Keep up your good work !
CHris- Re: ldir options by Odi 27.03.01
>Maybe something like /on or /os and /ad (directorys only).
>Its nothing absolutely necassary
>but an idea.
/on = order by name
/os = order by size
/ad = attribute directory
, I suppose
Well. I MIGHT include that for SMALL directories whereas in long
directories (like the windows\system) this won't work because of
memory space. I would have to load the whole directory into memory
first then sort it and print it out afterwards. With 640K of memory
only a few hundred file entries fit into memory... I had that in
version 1.0 but soon dicovered that this does not scale.
Even DOS reports an "out of memory" failure when trying to sort huge directories.
Odi
- Welcome by Odi 17.03.01
Discuss issues regarding the LFN Tools here. Ask questions, exchange oppinions, share your ideas. Give feedback.
It's up to you!
Regards
Odi