Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/12/16/15:16:41
As someone kindly pointed out to me in e-mail, you also have to set
NameNumericTail to 0 in the registry. (The FAQ refers to this, but says it
is necessary under "Windows 9X", not WinNT.)
In article <36771CA6 DOT 856F9B79 AT codenet DOT net>,
Steve Patton <spatton AT codenet DOT net> wrote:
> There's an environment variable you have to set. Try running
>
> set LFN=yes
>
> then running the same exact program. Something I ran into a while back.
>
> sburnap AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:
>
> > In article <slrn77cl7v DOT tm0 DOT morpheus AT teleute DOT rpglink DOT com>,
> > morpheus AT no-spam DOT calweb DOT com wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 23:35:54 GMT, sburnap AT my-dejanews DOT com
> > > <sburnap AT my-dejanews DOT com> wrote:
> > > >Which leads me to a question I had, which is: does anybody know when or if
> > > >DGJPP will support NTFS? I hate short file names...
> > >
> > > Best support for NTFS, don't run NT or NTFS. I just got through another
> > > Microsoft screwup which shouldn't have happened that completely nixed my NT
> > > install. Fortunately someone had written a read-only driver for DOS and I
> > > could move my files off that partition before deleting it in disgust. Of
> > > course, I'm also quite upset at Win95 right now as I need to reboot at least
> > > once, maybe twice a day, because it will no longer open windows unless I
> > > close some. And that is with, maybe, 3-4 open. :/ NT did the same thing,
> > > but it took about a week before it would happen.
> >
> > Hey, I agree. The trouble is that my boss does not. Such is life in the
> > real world....
> >
> > In fact, the trouble is that I insist on running something other than NT at
> > home. This means that in order to transfer a project from work to home, I
> > have to make sure all the file names are in the 8.3 format, despite the fact
> > that both OSes in question support long filenames. Bleah!
> >
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