Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:53:41 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	David Monksfield <drm AT dera DOT gov DOT uk>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: need help with LFN please...
In-Reply-To:	<358f83be.9645544@146.80.9.44>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980623145133.17359F-100000@is>
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, David Monksfield wrote:

> It appears that, under Win95, stat() and chmod() quite happily
> handle long filenames but the _dos_* functions refuse to, even
> with LFN=y set.

_dos_* functions don't support LFN, by design.  The docs just forget to 
mention that (this is corrected in the docs of the alpha v2.02 release).

Use _chmod if you need to get/set the DOS attributes for long file names.

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