From: Ron House Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: 8.3 filename problem Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:41:56 +0000 Organization: University of Queensland Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3A25BE74.4654C8E1@usq.edu.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: heracles.usq.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au 975552080 18610 139.86.208.29 (30 Nov 2000 02:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news AT uq DOT edu DOT au NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Nov 2000 02:41:20 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.86.23.13 X-Original-Trace: 30 Nov 2000 12:41:16 +1000, 139.86.23.13 X-Abuse: abuse AT usq DOT edu DOT au To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Prashant Ramachandra wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:09 AM, Ron House [SMTP:house AT usq DOT edu DOT au] > wrote: > | > | My DJGPP app. works fine on my own machine (Windoze 98) and handles > | long > | filenames, but on a friend's machine (Windoze NT) it will not read > | or > | write anything that is not 8.3. Any clues? > > DJGPPcan't handle LFN on Win NT. You need a separate LFN driver. You > could check the FAQ if you want to get it. Thanks for that - I'll look into it. -- Ron House house AT usq DOT edu DOT au http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house A rose grows in the Earth's good soil.