From:	noemail AT address (David G. McDivitt)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: NT long file name support
Date:	Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:35:42 GMT
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Would you please give me a URL for the DJGPP FAQ list. I did a Yahoo
search and possibly found what you describe, but the web server at
that location does not seem to be responding. Thanks

>On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, David G. McDivitt wrote:

>> They are switching everyone at work to NT. NT has no long file name
>> interrupts since the DOS box is 5.0 rather than 7. I do not want to
>> sacrifice my MSDOS tools.

>Windows 2000, the next version of NT, does support the LFN API, so
>DJGPP programs can access the long names there.

>> I am wondering if DJGPP could be used to provide long file name support
>> to my QB programs. I can do assembler pretty well when I need to.
>> Possibly I could make a TSR to be loaded when I enter the DOS session,
>> and I could use the TSR to emulate Win95/98 long file name interrupts.

>See section 3.3 in the DJGPP FAQ list, it includes a pointer to such a
>TSR which someone already wrote.

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