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Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:03:46 +0000
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From:	Steven Ferry <beast AT thor DOT pla-net DOT net>
Subject:	Re: NT4.0 and long filenames under DOS

At 05:07 PM 8/13/96 GMT, you wrote:
>Well, or the lack thereof.
>
>I have now had a chance to take a look at the beta2 for NT4.0 and I
>checked that the LFN API is not available, even though NT4.0 supports
>both the VFAT and NTFS filesystems, which both support long filenames
>with upper/lowercase.
>
>Since this is available in Win95, I'm not sure if this is intentional,
>obviously this is a way to discourage DOS compatibility (you have to
>use a win32 compiler), but given that the win32 port of gcc isn't
>finished yet, djgpp is the only free compiler for porting unix console
>applications to NT, so not being handicapped by the ~n filename would
>be a big plus.

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