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From Hans-Juergen Taenzer <Hans-Juergen DOT Taenzer AT t-online DOT de>:

> is it possible to create long filenames on OS/2 with a DJGPP program?

Eli Zaretskii responded:

> Does OS/2 support the LFN API via Int 21h?

Hans-Juergen Taenzer:

> I don't know. I want to port a *ix program (using SQLite) to OS/2 without
> having access to OS/2.

> I think i have to ask the OS/2 gurus.

I used OS/2 through Warp 4 until it bombed out mysteriously and trashed my hard
drive data on or about April 6, 2001.  OS/2 supported long file names on HPFS
but not on FAT, and there was no way a DOS program could use long file names.
There were people working on things like FAT32 support, so it's conceivable
that somebody could have created support for long filenames accessible to a
DOS program; I quit following OS/2 and eComStation later in 2001.  eComStation,
by Serenity Systems, was a successor to OS/2, there might be info at
http://www.ecomstation.com .  There was also a news server news.ecomstation.nl

I think you'd need EMX rather than DJGPP to port a *ix program to OS/2 but
think you need OS/2 to run EMX.  EMX supports long file names on an HPFS
partition.  There was an OS/2 software archive at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/ , if
I remember corrrectly, but I don't know if it's still there.

Tom