From:	JMK <jeffrey DOT m DOT klopotic AT lmco DOT nospam DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: My NT installation wants '\' in the dir command
Date:	Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:03:36 -0800
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Sinan,

Thanks for the response.

What I was trying to illustrate was that if you type a dir command in a
dos window in Win2000 or NT,

> dir c:/dirA/dirB/filename.ext  will not work

but

> dir c:\dirA\dirB\filename.ext does work

on my computer.

When I did the installation of djgpp, I did successfully get
longfilename support as evidenced by doing a dir and finding 


sysmacros.h

instead of 

sysmacro.h

per the installation instruction in the README.1st file contained in
djgpp.

It turns out that there is a long filename problem on NT (support was
just not included with NT!) which is addressed by the NTLFN08b.zip file
and made my compilation work.

FWIW, I did not know that you can use either "cmd" or "command.com" in
the Run window to launch DOS.  I know they are different, and it appears
that not knowing about the difference can cause confusion also.

But thank you again for discussing the issue -- it helps.

Jeff

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