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From:	lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	rsxtndj and long filenames
Date:	20 Aug 1996 13:33:00 GMT
Organization:	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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Message-ID:	<4vceqc$p2i@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hello all,

I now gave rsxntdj a try and compiled my gif2png utility with it. This
seems to work rather well (though I had the impression the program ran
slower than with the djgpp libs in dpmi), I only noticed a strange
thing. I have compiled the program as a rsxio application which means
that is opens a window that acts as as console and it works with LFN
if I call the program from the command line (no wildcards, though),
but when I put the program's icon onto the desktop and drag a
selection of file onto it, it first opens a MSDOS console window with
gif2png as title and then the rsxio window. In this case, the
filenames are passed as munged names to the application (file~1.xxx),
so apparently Windows thinks that the application is for Windows 3.x
and doesn't recognize it as a LFN capable application.

I have no idea how to investigate this problem (and I'd rather not
learn Windows programming, the fact that djgpp is quite unixy is IMHO
the best part of it :-). But maybe someone has an idea. I think Win95
decides if an application is LFN capable by some kind of version
number that is in the executable header.


bye, Alexander

PS. I should mention that I have tested this in Win95, not in NT.

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