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Free Pascal DOS: Is LFN required for work?
Milsa:
I installed FP with LFN in DOSBox-x. I copied it to CF card for Pocket 386 with DOS 6.22. It is necessary LFN for work with it? Bacause I use Dos Navigator without LFN. Necromancer Dos Navigator doesn't work on this computer. Copying files may break LFN in this version of DN. I don't find any file with LFN in Free Pascal.
marcov:
Usually FPC is considered to be usable without SFN, but it is hard to compile (bootstrap) FPC itself or build releases without LFN. Maybe older Dos users used Win9x anyway.
I haven't heard much news on the practicalities of the dos front for daily use in recent years.
Milsa:
Thank you for your answer.
DOS is for retro projects. No for daily use.
Milsa:
Is it possible to tell FP to also search recursively in subdirectories when looking for libraries for programs? I can't run the examples without putting the libraries all in one directory.
marcov:
For precompiled units and unit source, yes: Append a * to the end of the path e.g.
-Fuc:\fpc\units\i386-go32v2\*
(preferably in the similar line in fpc.cfg)
Libraries (external .a files), not that I know.
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