From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problems with long file names
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:40:43 +0100
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:05:45 GMT, Stefan Kunkel
> <theonly_2001 AT my-deja DOT com> wrote:
> 
> >How can i read from  and write to files with long file names ???
> >In the DOS-Box under 95/98 everything works fine, but under NT
> >nothing !!
> 
> NT version 4 and earlier don't provide long filenames in their NTVDM.
> Either:
>  * Get one of those LFN TSRs for DOS.
>  * Upgrade to NT 5 aka Windows 2000, which provides long filenames.

You should be aware that there are problems with DJGPP programs under
Win2k. If you have to pay for Win2k, then it may be worth waiting until
these problems are solved.

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Richard Dawe
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