Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:44:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Rodger D. Ballard Jr." <rballard AT spiritone DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP w/long file name support
In-Reply-To: <199612020021.QAA19357@ridge.spiritone.com>
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On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Rodger D. Ballard Jr. wrote:

> Statement: Windows 95 supports long file names.
> Statement(2): The access to long file names under DOS is an interrupt.
> Question: Does anyone know how to implement this under a C/C++ program in
> DJ?

You are kidding, right?  DJGPP v2 supports long filenames Windows 95 
style *right out of the box*!  You don't need to do anything, just
set LFN=y in the environment and run your DJGPP programs.

For details, see the documentation of the `_use_lfn' library function in 
the on-line library reference (libc.inf), by typing this from the DOS 
prompt:

	info libc alphabetical _use_lfn