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From:	lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Subject:	NT4.0 and long filenames under DOS
Date:	13 Aug 1996 17:07:32 GMT
Organization:	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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Message-ID:	<1996Aug14.0318220510.86.214@UPPSSNEWSPUB04>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,microsoft.public.windowsnt.40beta,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

Well, or the lack thereof.

I have now had a chance to take a look at the beta2 for NT4.0 and I
checked that the LFN API is not available, even though NT4.0 supports
both the VFAT and NTFS filesystems, which both support long filenames
with upper/lowercase.

Since this is available in Win95, I'm not sure if this is intentional,
obviously this is a way to discourage DOS compatibility (you have to
use a win32 compiler), but given that the win32 port of gcc isn't
finished yet, djgpp is the only free compiler for porting unix console
applications to NT, so not being handicapped by the ~n filename would
be a big plus.


bye, Alexander

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