Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:57:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT fb0432 DOT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: LFN
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On 17 Sep 1996, Alexander Lehmann wrote:

>When you are running djgpp v2 programs under Win95 (not DOS7), they
>support LFN if the environment variable LFN is set to y. If you are
>running only DOS7 without Win95 or DOS6.22, it is not available
>(neither in Win NT 4.0). There have been some discussion on the list
>recently if it would be possible to add LFN support functions to old
>DOS maybe with a TSR, but nothing has been done yet (I think).
Well, actually I have written a lib to read LFNs on any DOS. I think I'll be
ready to release it next week. Now, as we speaking about that, do you think
that supporting CREATION of LFN entries on any DOS makes sense? It requires
writing virtually all access routines - DOS can't help here... 

Marek

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