Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:04:49 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: root <vischne AT ibm DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: The future of Djgpp
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On 17 Oct 1997, root wrote:

> Thank you for the info.  Now, if Win95 would read long file names from a
> CD Rom, we'd be in complete agreement.

It's not Windows that's at fault, it's whoever produced the CD.  A CD
that needs to support both short and long file names needs to be
burned with Joliet extensions to the CD format.  I've seen several CDs
made that way, and I can report that the long names there were seen by
Windows 95, Windows NT and DJGPP programs (e.g., `ls') when they run
on Windows 95.