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From: "Rodger D. Ballard Jr." <rballard AT spiritone DOT com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP w/long file name support
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 23:03:02 -0800
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I am sorry for not being too clear on that one. This question pertains more
towards C and for instance if I wanted to make a program that supports long
file name support under a Win95 dos box. I was curious if anyone knew how
to implement this in a seperate program via DJGPP C code (I have a feeling
it would involve inline assembler, something I have never touched under
DJ.) A perfect example is this:

Construct a program that will add line numbers and colons in front of every
line in a specified file that supports long file names:

A sample run might be:

disptext this_is_the_file_name.txt

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> 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
> Date: Sunday, December 01, 1996 10:44 PM
> 
> 
> 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