Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:1486
From: joel AT imobility DOT com (Joel Gerstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: LFN Support
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:09:07 GMT
Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link
Lines: 12
Message-ID: <4gnd92$1u4@usenet2.interramp.com>
References: <2 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19960222223012 DOT 0069eda8 AT home DOT imobility DOT com> <312e1b41 DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ip121.herndon7.va.interramp.com
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:

>> I am under NT 3.51 and I am having problems with LFN support.  

>1) I don't think NT supports the LFN API for DOS (so far I have only seen
>   it work under Windows 95).  I would hope MS is planning to fix this in
>   NT soon, but I'm not holding my breath.
>2) Did you set LFN=y on the command line (or changed the DJGPP.ENV file)?
>   Long File Names are disabled by default, since they cause grief with
>   short file name distributions.
LFN=y helped quite a bit.