[Coco] Re: imgtool.exe in M.E.S.S. 0.74b is bad

[Nathan Woods]

Theodore A. Evans writes: 

> Long file name support is not a CLI/shell issue, it is a file system
> issue.  On versions of Windows which support long file names, the CLI
> has no problem with them.

This is not quite true.  To see a demonstration of what I am referring to, 
try the following on both command.com and cmd.exe (the latter of which is 
only available on NT/2000/XP): 

   CD "C:\Program Files" 

command.com will complain about this command, because it uses long file 
names; you are forced to specify "C:\Progra~1".  cmd.exe handles it fine. 

> I also suspect that the stability you speak
> of is also unrelated to the shell, though it being a program like any
> other is suceptible to the same instabilities as others.

The thing about command.com is that it brings up a virtual DOS machine, and 
the command line outputs characters to an emulated text mode screen.  The 
same is not true for cmd.exe, in its case, the virtual DOS machine only 
comes up when an MS-DOS executable is ran.