From: "Ian St. John" <istjohn AT sprint DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Long name support in DOS
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 18:46:55 -0400
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>
>On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Patrice GAU wrote:
>
>> I try to get long name ( more than 8+3 chars ) and I never succeeded.
>
>If you are working in Windows 95 DOS box, set LFN=y in the environment,
>and all DJGPP programs will see long names.
>
>If you are working on plain DOS or Windows 3.X, you cannot have long
>file names.
>
If the last point is true, how can I

cd "A Long File Name Which Is A Directory"

Works in Dos 7.0..

I don't know about Dos 6.xx