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From: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 02:24:53 +0000
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Subject: Re: Long Filenames - can they always be on?
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On  5 Jul 98 at 17:38, Matthew Conte wrote:

> Hi, just a quick question (respond to group, email address is bogus)...

It is not polite to give a false email address.

> My program will recognize LFN's if LFN=y in the environment, but is there
> any way to make it *always* recognize LFN's (unless the OS doesn't support
> it) without having that environment variable set?  In other words, can it be
> handled at compile-time rather than run-time?

Unless "LFN=n", djgpp programs will try to use long filenames.  So 
your programs on normal Win95 machines should be able to use long 
filenames without the owner setting the environment variable.

The reason you needed to do so on your system is that the normal 
`djgpp.env' has a line causing LFN to be set to `n', if it is not 
already set.

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