From:	Vlad Pambucol <vlad AT linux1 DOT aut DOT utt DOT ro>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Long file names -how?
Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:18:44 -0500
Organization:	University of Rostock
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Edit djgpp.env and set LFN=y

Koehler wrote:

> Hi.
>
> How can one use long filenames with djgpp (i.e as under win95)?
> I've looked through the faq and seen some discussion here but don't
> see a path to doing this. The upshot of what I've read is that it
> can't be done in a general way, but *it can be done*...how?
>
> I've ported some code of mine from unix and all works great except
> that files with more than 8 char names (or 3 char exten) don't get
> handled by fopen() correctly. Luckily I've isolated this c lib call
> to only one function (which is then called by whatever other's
> need to do file I/O) so whatever needs to be "fixed" can be fixed
> in one place.
>
> Basically, I don't really care how generalizable, portable, or user
> friendly a solution to this problem is (I'm the only user for the
> forseeable future) so long as it's not such a complete hack that
> will jeopordize either my files or system.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>     Ryan Koehler (koehler AT trpntech DOT com)
>
> p.s. If you think I'm just asking too much for this cool free
> compiler, please feel free to recommend a more costly :-) one
> that will work with plane old C under win95. I actually looked
> into this for a bit, but the C++ libs / GUI / macro / etc,etc,etc
> hype that accompanied what I found was too much for me to sift
> through and figure out what I would actually get!!!!!

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