From: bignose AT nemesis DOT DEATH DOT TO DOT SPAMMERS DOT com DOT au (The Nose Who Knows) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Using djgpp on WINNT References: Organization: Civil Rights for Purple Things! Reply-To: bignose AT DEATH DOT TO DOT SPAMMERS DOT nemesis DOT com DOT au Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.10.8.67 Date: 13 Apr 98 05:29:04 GMT Lines: 26 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >Yes, I am sure. DOS programs can access long file names on Windows 9X >by using special functions of the DOS interrupt 21h. These functions >aren't supported by the NT DOS box. >> At least, LFN's in a DOS-box under NT are quite possible, and work fine >> on my NT system. >I assume you mean they work with programs like CMD.EXE and others >which are supplied with NT. If so, then that's because these programs >aren't DOS programs at all. They were compiled as Win32 console apps, >and therefore can use the Win32 API to access the files. DOS programs >such as what DJGPP generates cannot use Win32. Okay, time for a DJGpp-newbie question: does anyone know whether and what plans are underway to get LFN support into DJGpp? I'm sure this should be a FAQ, but all the FAQ document said was "No, they don't work under NT - yes, we know why." I was expecting a "here's what we're doing about that", but no. Surely this problem isn't insoluble. I haven't investigated it, but I know that at the least, Info-ZIP supports LFNs under NT without any trouble; I assume it would be using freely distributable code. -- / The Nose Who Knows, aka. Ben Finney - Melbourne, Australia \ /' Remove CAPITALS from my email address if you are a human. `\ (__o_ [K] All rites reversed _o__)