Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/12/11/11:01:05
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rob Snel wrote:
> Long filename support IS of course included in the WIN32-API, described
> fairly well AND accesible from terminal applications.
DOS programs cannot access the Win32 API. The terminal applications you
are talking about are Win32 programs compiled as console apps; they are
NOT .exe-style DOS programs, like what DJGPP produces.
The Win32 API is not implemented as functions of some software
interrupt. Win32 programs call these functions by ``name'' (actually a
pointer into a table, resolved at link and/or load time), and the Windows
kernel services them as it sees fit. You cannot access this API from a
DOS program.
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