From: "Marp" <Marp AT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problem with long file names
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:16:08 -0400
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Sreenivas Talasila <stalasila AT hns DOT com> wrote in message
news:38048EC2 DOT CF355DB4 AT hns DOT com...
> Hi all,
>
> I downloaded and installed the latest version of djgpp onto my trusty
> 486 running Win NT 4.0.
> The problem is that the compiler refuses to recognize long file names.
> Does anybody know how I
> can fix this??

Windows NT unlike Windows 9x does not provide the long file name api to dos
programs. There are some possible solutions. See section 3.3 of the djgpp
faq for details about using djgpp with Windows NT.

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq006.html