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Re: TCG digest 72

Posted by Justin Dahlke on 1998-03-01

> Hi Jaz,
>
> On 28 Feb 98 at 21:18, you wrote:
>
> > I need a unit that gives me the ability to use
> > the long windows 95 filenames in Turbo Pascal
> > 6 or 7 for DOS.
> Did you tried the SWAG files.swg? There is a unit by Duncan Murdoch
> (No. 086) "Win95 long file names"...
> Regards - Ulli -
>
Well, dos doesn't support long filenames like windows does. The only
thing I could think of is looking at the filename you want and finding
out how dos looks at the name. Ex.
Progra~m.exe is = to Program.exe Now that's not how dos does it
exactly, but it's something like that. This is how you could open the
file, but saving it would destroy the long filename. Good Luck.

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