Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:23:03 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Mike Demoulin <mad AT intersurf DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What is the canonical way to find out if a file exists (in g++)?
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Mike Demoulin wrote:

> Is there any way that I can find files with long file names? 
> I tried findfirst (), which is supposed to work with long file names,
> with no joy.

findfirst (and other DJGPP functions) support long file names only on
Windows 9X.  NT doesn't include the special API that lets DJGPP
programs access the long names.  It's all in the FAQ (section 3.3).