From: "Wojciech Galazka" <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: Long file names not accepted by gxx (or gcc)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:00:26 +0200
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: <8ngcta$8q3$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>...
>r_seshadri AT vsnl DOT com wrote:
>
>
>From this, and the occurence of the 'streambuf.h problem', I conclude
>you must be using Windows NT as your OS. You've just hit the key
>problem of DJGPP with NT: lack of support for long filenames in NT's
>DOS emulation. Only Windows applications (including the 32bit
>'cmd.exe' that runs the prompt, in NT) can see long filenames in
>NT.


Excuse me but I don't understand one thing. Doesn't the LFN driver that
provides LFN API for Windows NT work for you ? For me it works so nicely
that it's going to be uploaded to SimtelNet real soon.

I suspect the problem was with 'LFN=n ' in djgpp.env