From: "Alexei A. Frounze" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: where is source code for long file name ? Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:18:47 +0400 Organization: MTU-Intel ISP Lines: 22 Message-ID: <392247D7.B4BD4BB@mtu-net.ru> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp100-214.dialup.mtu-net.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gavrilo.mtu.ru 958548281 87489 212.188.100.214 (17 May 2000 07:24:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse AT mtu DOT ru NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 May 2000 07:24:41 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com There are some sources for LFN available, at http://members.xoom.com/dosuser, for example. But your question is incorrect. LFN is an OS feature, not a computer's hardware and/or computer makers'. LFN is not present in older OSes (MSDOS for example) and there won't be official support for LFN in MSDOS because MSDOS is outdated and not in development anymore. Moreover, MSDOS is being killed my M$, so... :) -- Alexei A. Frounze ----------------------------------------- Homepage: http://alexfru.chat.ru Mirror: http://members.xoom.com/alexfru smile773 wrote: > > I would like a C C++ source for LFN > why have'nt computers makers put this function > into the system ?