Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 10:16:36 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Jere_McDevitt AT theratx DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Long file names/editor
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On Sun, 4 Aug 1996 Jere_McDevitt AT theratx DOT com wrote:

> Well, (and others might be interested in this) I retrieved the source
> for JED and discovered that if code uses the open command when using
> DJGPP (gcc) then long file names aren't supported.  However, _open
> does use long file names.  

I don't understand how this can be true.  `open' just calls `_open', so 
the two should support LFN in the same way.  Can you debug this?  Maybe 
the pre-compiled version was built with an old library that didn't 
support LFN?