From: "Boris Gaspic" <boris DOT gaspic AT am2 DOT ericsson DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Q: Long file names, djgpp 2.95.3 / WinNT 4.00 NTFS
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:33:57 +0200
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Hello,

I am new to djgpp. I am trying to write a program which
-must- use long file names on a WinNT 4.00 NTFS disk.
And I can't fopen() anything that's not 8.3. (a big problem
to me, since I'm dealing with thousands of files whose name
is a combination of two 32-bit database keys, and I must
access them knowing these keys...)

So it's about the fopen ("123456789.345678901", "rb");
Is there something I'm doing wrong? Am I -supposed-
to be able to use LFN in a shell on NT4.0? I can open the
files fine in the "123456~4.345" format, but nothing in
LFN. The printf ("%d\n", _USE_LFN); dumps a zero. (?!?)
Something I should change in DJGPP.ENV? (I use the original)
Or do I need a different libc or something?

I'd be pretty thankful for any solution which works on the
NT4.0 / NTFS, regardless if the same program would
later work on a different OS/FSYS combination or not.

Thank you,
Boris