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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Long file names?
From: arromdee AT www DOT inetnow DOT net (Ken Arromdee)
References: <367906F1 DOT 781F1968 AT geocities DOT com> <75glt6$9pv$1 AT nnrp1 DOT dejanews DOT com> <75gr45$ns3 AT news1 DOT panix DOT com>
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Date: 19 Dec 1998 15:28:33 -0500
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In article <75gr45$ns3 AT news1 DOT panix DOT com>,
Mike "NO UCE" Schuster <schuster_ AT at_panix_ DOT dot_com> wrote:
>> There are documentation of lfnutils:
>>Long Name Utilities
>>all items copyright 1996 M. Dew-Jones. DonationWare CompuServ:73312,2317
>> ----  Description  ----
>>These utilities display and modify the long names created and used by
>>Windows 95 even if you are not running Windows 95.  They can be used to
>>list, modify, save and restore long file names.
>>    DIR95 - directory list including Win95 long names

Okay, has anyone integrated this type of stuff into DJGPP so that DJGPP
utilities can use long filenames in plain DOS?
--
Ken Arromdee                    |They said it was *daft* to build a space
arromdee AT inetnow DOT net            |station in a swamp, but I showed them!  It
karromde AT nyx DOT nyx DOT net            |sank into the swamp.  So I built a second
http://www.inetnow.net/~arromdee|space station.  That sank into the swamp too.
--------------------------------+My third space station sank into the swamp.
So I built a fourth one.  That fell into a time warp and _then_ sank into the
swamp.  But the fifth one...  stayed up! --Monty Python/Babylon 5

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