From:	Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT fb0432 DOT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: LFN
Date:	17 Sep 1996 12:17:44 GMT
Organization:	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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Johan Eriksson <m-26432 AT mailbox DOT swipnet DOT se> wrote:
: I wonder if there is a (easy) way to read long file names under DOS 7
: with some sort of DIR. Is it possible to get the win95 LFN from DOS
: 6.22 and earlier without start to mess with the 95 filesystem?.

When you are running djgpp v2 programs under Win95 (not DOS7), they
support LFN if the environment variable LFN is set to y. If you are
running only DOS7 without Win95 or DOS6.22, it is not available
(neither in Win NT 4.0). There have been some discussion on the list
recently if it would be possible to add LFN support functions to old
DOS maybe with a TSR, but nothing has been done yet (I think).


bye, Alexander

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