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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: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 09:13:43 -0800
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THANK YOU! you did answer my question.

In addition this just proves that DJ is just that much more up to date ;) 

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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: Monday, December 02, 1996 6:57 AM
> 
> 
> On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Rodger D. Ballard Jr. wrote:
> 
> > 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.)
> 
> Unless I misunderstand you completely, I already answered this: *every*
> program compiled with DJGPP supports long filenames when you run it from
> Windows 95 DOS box.  This includes programs compiled by you, not only
> those that come pre-built with the DJGPP distribution.  You don't have to
> do anything special to get this support: it's built into the DJGPP
runtime
> library functions which your program calls.  For instance, you can say 
> this in your program:
> 
> 	FILE *fp = fopen ("this_is_the_file_name.txt", "r");
> 
> When this is run on Windows 95, the function `fopen' will see that long
> filenames are supported on this platform and will then use the long
> filename version of DOS OpenFile function.  This is all entirely
> automatic. 
> 
> > 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
> 
> Write your `disptext' in C, compile it with DJGPP, and you will get a 
> program that can be run like that.