Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:17:56 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "altaf.aali" <altaf DOT aali AT cressoft-khi DOT com DOT pk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Michael Mauch <michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: RHIDE and NT
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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, altaf.aali wrote:

> > Funny. I'm using long filenames and I don't have problems with this. Now with 
> > the "-M" option also the mouse works. Is this long filename stuff something
> > that should happen always or just in special cases?
>      
>      
>      Actually it's not that strange, because I think you are using the 
>      Win95-compatible file system of NT and not NTFS, and in the former 
>      case DOS programs can read long filenames as they can in a Win95 dos 
>      box.

AFAIK, this is incorrect.  The problem with long file names on NT is that 
the NT DOS box doesn't include the special LFN-aware functions of 
Interrupt 21h which DJGPP uses to access the long names.  So the type of 
the filesystem doesn't matter.