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From: Hans-Juergen Taenzer <Hans-Juergen DOT Taenzer AT t-online DOT de>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP, OS/2 and LFN-Support
Date: 02 Nov 2003 20:43:00 +0100
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Thomas Mueller (tmueller AT bluegrass DOT net) wrote:
 > From Hans-Juergen Taenzer <Hans-Juergen DOT Taenzer AT t-online DOT de>:

 >> 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.

True. A test for this has showed the same result.

 > 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.

Thank you for your information. I will have a look for it.

Hans-Juergen