Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 17:53:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Rob Snel <snel AT tpd DOT tno DOT nl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: long filenames not available to DJGPP on NT?
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rob Snel wrote:

> Long filename support IS of course included in the WIN32-API, described
> fairly well AND accesible from terminal applications.

DOS programs cannot access the Win32 API.  The terminal applications you 
are talking about are Win32 programs compiled as console apps; they are 
NOT .exe-style DOS programs, like what DJGPP produces.

The Win32 API is not implemented as functions of some software 
interrupt.  Win32 programs call these functions by ``name'' (actually a 
pointer into a table, resolved at link and/or load time), and the Windows 
kernel services them as it sees fit.  You cannot access this API from a 
DOS program.