From: noemail AT address (David G. McDivitt) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: NT long file name support Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:35:42 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Lines: 20 Message-ID: <38cd3427.15769106@enews.newsguy.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p-589.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Would you please give me a URL for the DJGPP FAQ list. I did a Yahoo search and possibly found what you describe, but the web server at that location does not seem to be responding. Thanks >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.