From: locke AT mcs DOT net (Peter Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Using DJGPP on Windows NT4
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:26:01 GMT
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Eli,

You might want to update the FAQ--Andrew Crabtree has a new version
out, as well as a new webpage for it:
http://www.goof.com/pcg/djgpp/ntlfn.html

Peter Johnson
locke AT mcs DOT net

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:33:05 -0500, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
wrote:

>
>   I am evaluating various methods of porting an existing Unix based
>   application to NT. It seems, from preliminary investigations, that DJGPP
>   only supports the old DOS 8.3 filename. I would be grateful if you could
>   clarify  the situation.
>
>The DJGPP FAQ clarifies it in section 3.3: Windows/NT doesn't include
>the special API that allows DOS programs to access long file names, so
>DJGPP cannot support that on NT.  That section of the FAQ also points
>to a experimental long-file-name driver for NT which you could try.
>Long file names *are* supported on Windows 95 and 98.