From: broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
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Subject: Re: long filenames and Windows NT
Date: 2 Nov 1999 23:44:16 +0100
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Koehler (koehler AT netcom3 DOT netcom DOT com) wrote:
> I can't seem to get long filenames working on a WinNT machine.

Not just you can't: they *do* not work. Period. 

If you want to complain somewhere, the right addressee is Micro$oft.
They purposefully don't support the LFN API in NT DOS boxes.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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