From:	Michael Trausch <mtrausch AT wcnet DOT org>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: ATTN: New user help
Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:46:02 -0500
Organization:	Wood County Internet Council
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I thought that there was a C++ library available that allowed plain DOS
users to read LFN names... Linux has code to do this (reading and writing
of Windows filesystems allows LFN access), and there is a program that
Caldera has which implements the API... I thought that there was a
publicly available implementation, though.

	- Mike

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Daniel Willis wrote:
> 
> > Does djgpp need win95 to read long file names?
> 
> Yes, it does.  The special API that permits DOS programs to access
> long file names is part of the Windows filesystem code, it isn't
> available until Windows starts.
> 
> But what's wrong with the original settings?  I thing PROGRA~1 is
> perfectly okay, as it is also a short 8+3 name, and so will be visible
> in plain DOS mode, as well as under Windows: even when Windows is up,
> every file is still reachable by its short 8+3 name.
> 
> 

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M. Trausch                                E-Mail:  mtrausch AT wcnet DOT org

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