Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/04/23/10:20:47
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, altaf.aali wrote:
> > Funny. I'm using long filenames and I don't have problems with this. Now with
> > the "-M" option also the mouse works. Is this long filename stuff something
> > that should happen always or just in special cases?
>
>
> Actually it's not that strange, because I think you are using the
> Win95-compatible file system of NT and not NTFS, and in the former
> case DOS programs can read long filenames as they can in a Win95 dos
> box.
AFAIK, this is incorrect. The problem with long file names on NT is that
the NT DOS box doesn't include the special LFN-aware functions of
Interrupt 21h which DJGPP uses to access the long names. So the type of
the filesystem doesn't matter.
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