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Re: DOS LFN support (was: Paste feature in Euphoria Editor)

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Oct 25, 2002
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Juergen Luethje writes:
> In the next release, will there also be DOS 
> long filename support under Win 95/98/ME for 
> current_dir(), chdir(), and *full* LFN support for dir() and open()?

All I've done is extend the current support for 
DOS long filenames to XP and 2000.

> Hm.. Rob, did you already mention, 
> when the next release will be available? ))

No, I haven't mentioned it.
I expect to have a 2.4 alpha-test release within 2 months.

> Together with J.Brown, I began to work at a cross-platform library for
> directory and file operations some time ago. Unfortunately, it doesn't
> make much progress at the moment, because I have little time, but it
> shouldn't be too much work to extract the functions related to long
> filenames, and rearrange them somewhat.

If you can create a .e file with full support for long filenames,
and if people can confirm that it works with all flavors of DOS,
I can move the code into the interpreter. 

I believe (but haven't fully tested) that the ex.exe interpreter or 
translator using DJGPP already has full support for DOS LFN. 
It's the Watcom versions that are lacking in a couple of areas.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com