From: weiqigao AT crl DOT com (Weiqi Gao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 32-bit filenames
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 14:20:51 GMT
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Someone <s2193209 AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au> wrote:

>Hello all,
>  Having programmed with BorlandC for 5 years, I recently moved into
>GCC. Since GCC is 32-bit, I was wondering whether it would be possible
>to write a shell program which would allow the listing and i/o of 32-bit
>filenames.

Since DJGPP is for DOS and DOS doesn't have a "32-bit" file system, I
think it would be impossible to use the "32-bit" file names.  DJGPP
does support the long file names under Windows 95, but that's a kludge
of the "16-bit" file names, not a "32-bit" file name.

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