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From: olly AT mantis DOT co DOT uk (Olly Betts)
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Subject: Re: Long filenames are not created by fopen
Date: 3 Jul 1996 17:06:39 +0100
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In article <Pine DOT NEB DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 960703153348 DOT 4907B-100000 AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>,
Mark Habersack  <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl> wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Charles Sandmann wrote:
>> > I am running v2.0 of DJGPP on Windows NT v3.51.  I am trying to
>> > get my software to write files with names longer than 8 characters
>> 
>> Won't work.  The problem is that Microsoft doesn't support their own
>> LFN DOS API in the DOS sessions under WNT.  

>The gossip is that new Windows NT 4.0 Beta provide support for the LFNs in
>the DOS session.

I've just tried fopen("longfilename.test","w"); on NT 4.0 Beta 2 (build
1314) and I got a file called "LONGFILE.TES".  I also tried with SET LFN=y
and got the same results.  Either I'm doing something wrong, or the gossip
has little basis.

If anyone has a specific test to try, mail it to me and I'll give it a go.

Olly
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