long file names

[Gregory Hartwig]

Any nicely formatted PB/DOS SUB or FUNCTION available that
performs a conversion between long filenames/directories and 8.3
used by DOS?

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Greg H.

[Lance Edmonds]

a search for "lfn" provides some useful threads for you:
http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...read.php?t=701
http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...read.php?t=217

and also don't overlook the files section of the powerbasic web site: http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/pbdos/library/

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lance
powerbasic support
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[Gregory Hartwig]

Lance,
Thanks for the recomendation. I used the following http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/pbdos/library/
to download & try the PBFLN322.zip. It works fine for Win 9X.
I already have a kludgy routine I wrote myself which works
under Win 9X, but does not work under NT. The freeware
routines do not have any effect on long directory names/
file names when running under NT. Can you help me there?

Greg

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Greg H.

[Lance Edmonds]

I've never used those routines on NT, so I'm not the best person to answer this, but the following link contains some references and possibly code for using LFN's in NT from DOS.
http://www.cybertrails.com/~fys/longfile.htm

Good luck!

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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