Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From:	Scott Blachowicz <scott AT statsci DOT com>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP w/long file name support
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Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 1997 00:41:27 GMT
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
 Eli> You are kidding, right?  DJGPP v2 supports long filenames Windows 95 
 Eli> style *right out of the box*!  You don't need to do anything, just
 Eli> set LFN=y in the environment and run your DJGPP programs.

Ahh...what about NT 4.0?  I've just been tryin to go from Win95 to NT 4.0,
but the make program can't find my GNUmakefile and the find program list
the 8.3 names.  I've got LFN=y, but I just went poking around and found a
mention in the FAQ:

    > 3.3 Will it work under Windows/NT?
    > ==================================
    > 
    > **Q*: What about Windows NT?*
    > ...
    > Note that the long filename API for DOS box is not supported by current
    > versions of Win/NT, so you cannot have long filenames there.  (There is a
    > rumor that the new version 4.0 of WinNT will support the LFN API, but I'm
    > told that at least the current beta versions still don't.)

and was wondering if anyone's done some work to get this to behave itself.
In my case, the DOS 'dir' command sees the LFNs, but not the DJGPP make or
find programs.  What "LFN API" is that referring to?  I wrote a quicky
little program to use the DOS _findfirst() function and IT returns the
LFNs for me on both Win95 and NT 4.0.  If I'm decyphering things right, it
looks like the DJGPP libc code ends up going into dpmi_int() to get lfn
information (where _I_ get lost, being primarily a Unix programmer).

I really need to find a GNU make program that works (i.e. finds all my
files) on our Win95 and NT development platforms.  Suggestions welcome!

Thanx!
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