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From:	fmarcos AT jet DOT es (Fernando Marcos)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Long Filenames in DOS
Date:	Fri, 03 May 1996 10:05:32 GMT
Organization:	Servicio IBERNET (Telefonica Transmision de Datos)
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I have found a reference to the API required to use long filename
entries (up to 260 characters) in DOS window running in Windows 95
(and hope so on Windows NT).

The complete article with source code is available on the August 94
issue of Microsoft Systems Journal (Nș 8), with the title "LONGNAME:
Makes Long FIlenames Accessible to 16-bit Programs".

Due to copyright, I cannot place the contents of the article here, but
I'm willing to rewrite it so it becomes "public domain" if anyone is
interested. The code basically rewrites some of the commonly used
functions to access files and directories (fopen, findfirst, etc) and
uses de underconvered API to access the long filenames stored on disk.

Hope DJGPP uses it some day!!

Fernando Marcos.

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