Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:43:28 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Michael Allison <michael DOT allison2 AT sympatico DOT ca>
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Subject:	Re: Win2k vs Win NT4 -how to distinguish
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Michael Allison wrote:

> This may not be elegant, but you could issue the DOS long filename API
> check, in combination with the Windows version call.  NT did not
> support the long filename API, but Windows 2000 does.  I'm not sure
> about interaction with the NT LFN driver that's floating about.

Not good: someone might have set LFN=n in the environment, or disabled
long names in the Registry, or installed an LFN driver on NT.

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