Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:54:32 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Adrian Kwong <akwong AT synapse DOT net>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Will there be Win95 LFN support in DJGPP?


On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Adrian Kwong wrote:

> I'm very comfortable with using Win95 and I like the ability to use the LFN 
> capabilities under Win95.  Will there be any support for Long File Names in 
> the future for DJGPP?

DJGPP v2.0 supports LFN, but it's turned off by default, because to use 
it, you have to rename some of the files from their truncated 8+3 DOS 
names to the full filenames, and also change the default setting in the 
Win95 registry to not add a digit to the basename part of the name (i.e., 
to not make `longfilename.ext' look like `longfi~1.ext' to DOS programs, 
but like `longfile.ext' instead).

> Conversely, would it be difficult to make an application compile as a Win32 
> Console App?  (so it has access to most of the Win32 library)

There is no support for Win32 in DJGPP yet.