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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Will there be Win95 LFN support in DJGPP?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:08:26 CST
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> I'm very comfortable with using Win95 and I like the ability to use the LFN 
> capabilities under Win95.  Will there be any support for Long File Names in 
> the future for DJGPP?

DJGPP V2 supports LFNs.  In the current beta, the default is on (which causes
problems looking for long file names that have been truncated); in the next
beta the default will be off.  But you can change this on an image by image
basis with a environment variable LFN=y or LFN=n.  The default is set in
DJGPP.ENV

> Conversely, would it be difficult to make an application compile as a Win32 
> Console App?  (so it has access to most of the Win32 library)

This would be a huge amount of work for DJGPP, but the NT port of GCC is well
along the way to making this capability available, from what I am told.

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