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From:	"Peter Cassidy" <peter DOT cassidy AT rocksoft DOT com>
To:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Hacking long file names from pure DOS
Date:	Wed, 8 May 2002 00:50:21 +0930
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NNTP down so posting here:

Hi All,

I have a requirement to see and set long file names from pure DOS booted
from a 'recovery disk' floppy.

I have to demonstrate something to a customer by the weekend, so we're quite
happy to pay money to get fast help on this.

The DOS boot disk comes from "Bart's Boot Disks"
(http://membres.lycos.fr/jfb/gb/TCPIP.htm and http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk)
(built from W98, DOS 4.10.2222) and the long file name support from LFNDOS
1.06 (http://saturn.spaceports.com/~dosuser/). DPMI is provided by
CWSDMPI.EXE.

I'm testing with a mickey mouse program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>

main()
{
DIR *d = opendir(".");

struct dirent *de;

printf("Hello all parallel universes.\n");

while (de = readdir(d))
  puts(de->d_name);
closedir(d);
}

which is compiled under gcc from djgpp 203.

I run CWSDPMI -s-

then test LFNDOS with the DOS DIR command.  Before LFNDOS, no long names;
after LFNDOS, long file names appear.  So far so good.

But when I run 'mickey' I get a SEGV after the printf.  i.e. it's opening
the dir but not reading it.  Any ideas anyone?

Sorry I haven't got all the config detail in this post but it's late at
night here in Oz, and I'm going to bed, and meanwhile y'all can tell me
which important information I left out. Also please forgive the newbie
question; I only started using djgpp/lfndos etc. yesterday!

Peter

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