From: sburnap AT ccnet DOT com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP, WinNT & a DOS program...
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:58:41 GMT
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As someone kindly pointed out to me in e-mail, you also have to set
NameNumericTail to 0 in the registry.  (The FAQ refers to this, but says it
is necessary under "Windows 9X", not WinNT.)

In article <36771CA6 DOT 856F9B79 AT codenet DOT net>,
  Steve Patton <spatton AT codenet DOT net> wrote:
> There's an environment variable you have to set.  Try running
>
> set LFN=yes
>
> then running the same exact program.  Something I ran into a while back.
>
> sburnap AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:
>
> > In article <slrn77cl7v DOT tm0 DOT morpheus AT teleute DOT rpglink DOT com>,
> >   morpheus AT no-spam DOT calweb DOT com wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 23:35:54 GMT, sburnap AT my-dejanews DOT com
> > > <sburnap AT my-dejanews DOT com> wrote:
> > > >Which leads me to a question I had, which is: does anybody know when or if
> > > >DGJPP will support NTFS?  I hate short file names...
> > >
> > >     Best support for NTFS, don't run NT or NTFS.  I just got through another
> > > Microsoft screwup which shouldn't have happened that completely nixed my NT
> > > install.  Fortunately someone had written a read-only driver for DOS and I
> > > could move my files off that partition before deleting it in disgust.  Of
> > > course, I'm also quite upset at Win95 right now as I need to reboot at least
> > > once, maybe twice a day, because it will no longer open windows unless I
> > > close some.  And that is with, maybe, 3-4 open.  :/  NT did the same thing,
> > > but it took about a week before it would happen.
> >
> > Hey, I agree.  The trouble is that my boss does not.  Such is life in the
> > real world....
> >
> > In fact, the trouble is that I insist on running something other than NT at
> > home.  This means that in order to transfer a project from work to home, I
> > have to make sure all the file names are in the 8.3 format, despite the fact
> > that both OSes in question support long filenames.  Bleah!
> >
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