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From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: DOS GNAT or Win95/NT GNAT? (Ada 95)
Date: 1997/05/11
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In article <19970509221401.SAA27483@ladder02.news.aol.com> bgaffney42@aol.com writes:

>Jerry van Dijk wrote (of GNAT/DOS vs GNAT/WinNT):
>>
>>2. Win95 supports long file names, the DOS version doesn't (yet)
>>
>I'm not sure what you mean here, I've had no problem doing this.  And I'm
>not even up to 3.09
>(I'm on 3.04 or some such).  Granted, I had to make one or two slight
>changes:

In GNAT/DOS the DJGPP flag controlling long filename usuage is not set,
so it uses the FAT only functions. Perhaps there is a trick to circumvent
it, but I'm very suspicous.

As I'm tinkering with the system right now, I cannot try it out.

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