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From: antwerp AT tpd DOT tno DOT nl (Gert van Antwerpen)
Subject: Re: Long file names in V2B3
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:21:45 GMT
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In article <30ce3cd1 DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>,
   Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:
>> The DJGPP2.0-Beta-3 docu suggests that I can use long filenames.
>> But it still not works on my system. What's wrong?
>
>If I remember correctly findfirst/stat/opendir/etc don't support lfn in
>b3 (it's in the next release).  But something like "open()" with a LFN
>should work.  And of course, you must be running W95 ...

I tried fopen("a very long filename","w"); on NT and it still creates
a small filename.


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