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From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Long files
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 19:10:40 +0100
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Bminier writes:
>How do I modify the existing DJ code to allow long file names to be used
>in dos windows under win95.

First download the libc sources. Then ignore them, and just write your
program in the usual way. It will work: libc already fully supports long
filenames :-)

If you are still using djgpp 2.0 you will have to set the environment
variable LFN=y to enable this, but unless I'm mistaken it's on by
default in djgpp 2.01...


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