Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:52:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Listing long filenames
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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 Koen_Van_Herck AT xircom DOT com wrote:

> How can I list long filenames in a program ?

Set LFN=y in the environment, and all DJGPP library functions will
support long file names on Windows 9X.  You can then use, e.g.,
findfirst and findnext to list the file names.

> Or otherwise, if I have a FILE *, how can I get the long filename for this
> file ?

AFAIK, there is no way to do this on DOS/Windows.  Actually, I think
Unix doesn't have such service either.