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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: jjohnson AT daacdev1 DOT stx DOT com (James Johnson), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:28:29 +0000
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Subject: Re: Windows NT and long file names with DJGPP
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jjohnson AT daacdev1 DOT stx DOT com (James Johnson) wrote:

> I have seen messages about how to use long filenames and read the documentation
> and there is an environment variable one can use to use long filenames, namely
> LFN=y.  Unfortunately this seems to only work for Windows 95.  Thus my question
> is, "can one read long filenames on Windows NT systems"?  If not, will this be
> supported in a future release?  And what about Windows 98 that just came out
> this year?

Win98 is almost like Win95 so you won't have problems.
NT is another thing (an experiment from my point of view) and under NT DOS 
applications doesn't have access to LFNs.
In W95 there are a set of interrupt calls to access the LFNs, NT lacks it.

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