From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
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Subject: Re: Best NT port of gnu file and text utils?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 99 14:13:35
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David Stuart <davidst AT nortelnetworks DOT com> wrote:
> I have been
> searching high and low for some decent NT ports of all the common file
> utils and text utils for gnu.

> I am very puzzled by the LACK of support for long filenames in these
> utilities. Especially the gnuish and djgpp stuff, since one would
> think (!) that ports from unix; where long filenames are common, would
> be easier than trying to port to 8.3.

The gnuish utilities are targeted at 16bit environments IIRC, so LFNs
are not available there.

MS-DOS programs run under Windows NT *cannot* access LFNs, because the
Windows LFN API isn't available. DJGPP does support LFNs under Win9x.

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