From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Long file names Date: 10 Jun 1999 11:29:25 GMT Organization: Ericsson Erisoft AB, Sweden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <7jo7il$3kr$1@antares.lu.erisoft.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.lu.erisoft.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com =?iso-8859-1?Q?MANCINO_St=E9phane?= (SMancino AT Tango DOT lu) wrote: : I know that DJGPP is fondamentaly a DOS compiler, but also i'm trying to use : it on Windows NT 4.0. : I have to compare filenames which i extract from a file to filenames : contained in a directory. So i open this dir with opendir and read its : content. But it seems that (_USE_LFN told me that) Windows NT doesn't : support long filenames ?? : Is there any way to force the program assuming all names are in long format : and not in this 8.3 format ? No. NT doesn't support the LFN API that WINDOZE 4.x (i. e. 9x) has. Talk to Microsnoft. Right, MartinS