Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:39:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: LFNs, timeslices and the preprocessor
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Scott Brown wrote:

> The _use_lfn documentation has a note to the effect that all
> filesystems under Win9x support LFNs, and suggests the use of the
> _USE_LFN macro instead of calling _use_lfn directly.  There is no
> mention of non-native filesystems like network drives and CDROMs.

All types of filesystems are native on Windows.  They are only non-native 
on DOS.

> Does _use_lfn return accurate info in all circumstances?

I don't think we've ever seen any problems with any type of filesystem.

Btw, there's a more ``portable'' way of probing whether long file names 
are supported: call `pathconf' with _PC_NAME_MAX argument, and compare 
the result with 12.  That will tell you whether you have LFN or 8+3 DOS 
names.