Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:59:36 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: NT long file name support
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, David G. McDivitt wrote:

> They are switching everyone at work to NT. NT has no long file name
> interrupts since the DOS box is 5.0 rather than 7. I do not want to
> sacrifice my MSDOS tools.

Windows 2000, the next version of NT, does support the LFN API, so
DJGPP programs can access the long names there.

> I am wondering if DJGPP could be used to provide long file name support
> to my QB programs. I can do assembler pretty well when I need to.
> Possibly I could make a TSR to be loaded when I enter the DOS session,
> and I could use the TSR to emulate Win95/98 long file name interrupts.

See section 3.3 in the DJGPP FAQ list, it includes a pointer to such a
TSR which someone already wrote.