Sender:	nate AT cartsys DOT com
Message-ID:	<364DF084.8A110164@cartsys.com>
Date:	Sat, 14 Nov 1998 13:05:08 -0800
From:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
X-Mailer:	Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i486)
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Windows NT and long file names with DJGPP
References:	<72hgnj$bkm AT post DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov>
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

James Johnson wrote:
> 
> I have seen messages about how to use long filenames and read the documentation
> and there is an environment variable one can use to use long filenames, namely
> LFN=y.  Unfortunately this seems to only work for Windows 95.  Thus my question
> is, "can one read long filenames on Windows NT systems"?  If not, will this be
> supported in a future release?  And what about Windows 98 that just came out
> this year?

NT does not provide an LFN API from DOS mode, so no, they don't work
normally.  However, there is an experimental driver by Andrew Crabtree
which provides this interface.  I forget where it lives, but search the
archives.

98 works like 95.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com

- Raw text -