Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/17/04:21:56
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Doug Gale wrote:
> Ok, so what happens if I DON'T set LFN=Y, like
> say, I send the program to someone that isn't a DJGPP programmer, with a nice
> autoexec, with LFN=Y?
You do NOT have to set LFN=y for the long file name support to work. The
DJGPP startup code detects automatically that long file names are
supported by the OS and switches to use LFN-aware functions of Int 21h.
The only reason that people who have DJGPP v2.01 installed need to set
LFN=y is that stock DJGPP.ENV that comes with djdev201.zip *disables* LFN
support, and without setting LFN=y in the environment, you can't have it.
But if DJGPP is not installed, this setting is not required.
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