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From: | dos-man 64 <ChairShot AT mail DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Is there some way to convert long filenames to short filenames? |
Date: | Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:13:01 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Mar 13, 7:35=A0pm, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h DOT DOT DOT AT nohavenot DOT cmm> wrote: > "dos-man 64" <ChairS DOT DOT DOT AT mail DOT com> wrote in message > > news:c8b9dd7a-ced3-4522-9bdd-bc565c607369 AT l39g2000yqn DOT googlegroups DOT com... > > > The only requirement is I have to set an > > environment variable LFN=3Dy. > > As DJ said, this should be automatic... =A0However, I've also have a few > programs where I have code force LFN use, if available. =A0This is with D= JGPP > v2.03. > > #ifdef __DJGPP__ > /* if LFN driver installed, force _USE_LFN on */ > if(lfn_installed) > { > =A0 _crt0_startup_flags&=3D~_CRT0_FLAG_NO_LFN; > =A0 putenv("LFN=3Dy");} > > #endif > > The variable lfn_installed gets set to one if a __dpmi_int 0x21 call to > 0x71a0 reports that it supports long filename functions. > > Rod Pemberton I'm going to try these out right now, thanks. Hopefully I can get rid of this dos environment variable requirement. I can imagine the horror and disfunctionality if every program relied on dos environment variables to run correctly, heh. It would be chaos.
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