From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Long file name support
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:27:00 CDT
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> > LFN TSRs are not required under Windows 2000 or Windows XP if you have
> > upgraded to the V2.03 refresh or V2.04 alpha test.

> Is the LFN TSR needed if you can access the DOS interrupts with assembly
> language?  

The built-in C run-time functions (fopen, etc) work directly with long
names under all platforms which support the long file name DOS interrupts.

> Hans Lunsing wrote some PowerBASIC code for handling long file
> names, filed as PBlfn322.zip on web page ...

This type of code has been available in DJGPP since Windows 95 was released
(about 8 years ago).