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From: Tom Wheeley <tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Are "real" long filenames possible with DJGPP v2 (make)?
Date: Mon, 20 May 96 01:43:25 GMT
Organization: City Zen FM
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960519194419 DOT 10504R-100000 AT is>
           eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il "Eli Zaretskii" writes:

> Btw, I always though that Win95 is case-preserving but case-insensitive. 
> If I'm correct, then "TheLongFile" and "thelongfile" should be treated by
> Win95 as if it were the same file.  Isn't this the case?

In my experience, that is the case.

BTW,does anyone know of a way to set *just* the short name or just the long
name of an existing file? Seems to me that that would be a useful util to give
files meaningful 8.3 names, as well as good long names.

..splitbung
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