Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:58:15 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Michael Schuster <Schuster AT eev DOT e-technik DOT uni-erlangen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Bash - long filenames?
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Michael Schuster wrote:

> I've just tried to work with bash on my Win95 system and was wondering
> if bash supports the long filenames of the windows -Fat system.

It supports long file names on Windows 9X, but not on Windows NT, because 
NT doesn't provide the LFN API used by DJGPP programs to access long names.

You didn't tell which version of Windows did you use, but if that was 
95/98, Bash should support long names, as all other DJGPP programs do.