Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:13:10 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Wojciech Galazka cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: long filenames and Windows NT In-Reply-To: <7vp0jm$ku5$1@sunsite.icm.edu.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Wojciech Galazka wrote: > I'm working on long filename support under Windows NT 4.0. > I started with the sources of nt-lfn written originally by to Andrew > Crabtree but rewrote them substantially since then. Sounds good. Thanks for working on this! > I wonder if there is enough interest in long filename support under NT at > all? I think the answer is a qualified YES! > I so are there any folks willing to test if my codes work? > So far I only made some testings under English versions of NT 4.0 Server & > Workstation with SP5 logged on as an Administrator. It would be a good idea to test this with some real-life packages that use filesystem calls intensively. Examples include `ls' from GNU Fileutils, `find' from Findutils, RHIDE/SETEdit, and (gulp) Emacs. Another good excercise is to try to build a large package, like Binutils, and see if it finds some LFN-related problems (ENOENT etc.). If it turns out that these applications work reasonably well and support long file names on NT, I'd say your driver is good enough to be uploaded to SimTel.NET and recommended to DJGPP users for NT platforms.