Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:05:37 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Rob Snel <snel AT tpd DOT tno DOT nl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: long filenames not available to DJGPP on NT?
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rob Snel wrote:

> Why produces the ls command on win95 proper (long) filenames, while on
> winNT4 the whole story is abreviated again to something with a tilde?

NT doesn't include the special LFN API that allows DOS programs to see 
the long file names.  So you cannot have them from DJGPP programs.  This 
is explained in the DJGPP FAQ list.

Maybe if enough people yelled at Microsoft, they would include the LFN 
API in a future version (yeah, right).

Or maybe somebody who needs this badly enough will sit down and write a 
free LFN server for Windows NT...  Maybe even you ;-)