Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:00:49 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Amr A Shalaby <shalaby AT seas DOT upenn DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: library for lfn under dos
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Amr A Shalaby wrote:

> Hello,  I've been browsing the newsgroups and FAQ for information on 
> handling windows95-style long file names in programs that will be 
> running under plain dos (i.e. not a win95 dos window).  It seems there 
> was talk of implementing a library of routines that will do this, but I 
> haven't been able to find information on who is implementing or whether 
> this has actually been done yet.

AFAIK, there's no DJGPP solution for supporting long file names on
plain DOS.  I'm told there are some TSRs floating around (not specific
to DJGPP) to do that, though.