Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:53:41 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: David Monksfield <drm AT dera DOT gov DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: need help with LFN please...
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, David Monksfield wrote:

> It appears that, under Win95, stat() and chmod() quite happily
> handle long filenames but the _dos_* functions refuse to, even
> with LFN=y set.

_dos_* functions don't support LFN, by design.  The docs just forget to 
mention that (this is corrected in the docs of the alpha v2.02 release).

Use _chmod if you need to get/set the DOS attributes for long file names.