From: "David G. McDivitt" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: NT long file name support Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.169.33.105 X-Trace: tw11.nn.bcandid.com 952880545 208.169.33.105 (Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:02:25 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:02:25 MST Organization: bCandid - Powering the world's discussions - http://bCandid.com Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:02:25 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I do a lot of MSDOS programming using QuickBasic PDS 7.1. I adapted QB to use long file names on Win95/98, and it works just fine. They are switching everyone at work to NT. NT has no long file name interrupts since the DOS box is 5.0 rather than 7. I do not want to sacrifice my MSDOS tools. I do VB as well, but I have no desire to convert my tools to VB, then switch back and forth from the command prompt to a window. I am wondering if DJGPP could be used to provide long file name support to my QB programs. I can do assembler pretty well when I need to. Possibly I could make a TSR to be loaded when I enter the DOS session, and I could use the TSR to emulate Win95/98 long file name interrupts. If not the TSR, possibly I could make NT calls directly from the program. Comments or advice would be appreciated. -- dmcdivitt AT yahoo DOT com http://www.members.tripod.com/dmcdivitt http://www.geocities.com/dmcdivitt