From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Long Filenames - can they always be on?
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 20:14:18 -0300
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On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, George Foot wrote:
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->DJGPP functions will use LFNs if possible.  You have to be running on 
->automatically sets `LFN' to `n' unless you set it otherwise, so put 
->"set lfn=y" in your `autoexec.bat' file.
->When you've done that, djgpp's library functions should be able to
->see the long filenames.
	I made a program (under djgpp) that took 2 filenames as
commandline parameters.  It opens and reads one file, then writes the 2nd
file.  If I ask it to open a file and I specify a long-filename, it works,
but if I ask it to write a long-filename, it just truncates it to 8.3
format.  This is running without LFN set at all as an environmental
variable.  Shouldn't it be able to make long-filenames?

	Endlisnis
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