Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 14:05:55 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: "Edward F. Sowell" cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: GetShortPathName() or DLL support In-Reply-To: <373DDBC7.5CD59EDF@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 May 1999, Edward F. Sowell wrote: > In this > case, I have been using GetShortPathName() prior to the spawnxx() call, so > naturally the easiest fix to make things compile under DJGPP is to pose > the question as I did. If there was, I would merely link with a different > library, w/o source changes. However, I suppose I can write a "do nothing" > GetShortPathName() of my own and compile it in or link to it only under DJGPP. A simpler way would be to call GetShortPathName conditioned by "#ifndef __DJGPP__". > Getting off the original topic a bit, a recently encountered and very > troublesome problem is lack of long file name support on NT. regradless > of who's fault that is (I've read the FAQ), it's a bit of a setback for > me. I understand that Cygnus does not have this problem. Cygnus tools generate native Win32 executables which can access long file names on NT.