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Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970513112747.00e96cd0@mail.student.utwente.nl>
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:27:47 +0200
To: Tasos DOT Drosopoulos AT dreo DOT dnd DOT ca (Tasos Drosopoulos)
From: Erik Post <erik DOT post AT student DOT utwente DOT nl>
Subject: Re: LFN=y in Win95 and NT4
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <slrn5nct1k.3b.Tasos.Drosopoulos@pcdrosos.abrdr.dreo.dnd.ca
>
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At 13:36 12-5-97 GMT, you wrote:
>Hello 
>
>I have djgpp in both Win95 and NT4 environments with LFN=y enabled. No
>problems in Win95, I can see with "ls" the long filenames and can expand tar
>archives that have long filenames. Not so in NT4. "ls" only sees the
>standard 8.3 DOS filenames. Is there something else that needs to be
>enabled? Appreciate any hints.
>
>TIA

NT 4 doesn't use the same API for long filenames under DOS as Win95. So the
long filenames won't work under NT. There's nothing to do about that.

HTH,

Erik Post
Student Computer Sciences at University of Twente, The Netherlands
e-mail: erik DOT post AT student DOT utwente DOT nl

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