Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:33:06 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Detecting longfilename support..
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On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, George Foot wrote:

> int main(void)
> {
>  int lfn=(toupper(getenv("LFN")[0])=='Y');
> 
>  if (lfn)
>   printf("Long filenames available.\n");
>  else
>   printf("Long filenames not available.\n");
> 
>  return(lfn);
> }

This program will mislead you sometimes.  Setting LFN=y is not enough to 
get long filenames, as I explained in my other message in this thread.