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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: What to use?  LongFileNames, Grep etc
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 23:43:07 CST
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> BTW. Does the long filename support of djgpp also work on OS/2? This would
> certainly make djgpp the most usefull development system in the one executable
> fits all category.

No.  To support long filenames, the "DOS" must support the long file name API
which MS created (uses Int21, ah=71) and neither OS/2 or NT did last time
I checked.  That's not to say a virtual device driver or even a DOS TSR
couldn't be used to provide this.