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From: phg@cs.brown.edu (Peter H. Golde)
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Subject: Re: DosFindFirst with HPFS names ?
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Date: 10 Apr 90 03:08:56 GMT
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In article <90098.181854ARMENGAU@FRECP12.BITNET> ARMENGAU@FRECP12.BITNET (Joel Armengaud) writes:
>How can I get the long file names on an HPFS partition ?
>When I use DosFindFirst, increasing the FILEFINDBUF structure, it doesn't
>work...  Do I have to put a non-zero value in the last argument,
>documented as "Reserved" ?

You have to set a special NEWFILES bit in the .EXE to gain access
to the long file names.  This can be done at link time with the
word NEWFILES after the name of the file and app types in
the NAME statement.  Or you can modify it after the fact;
Microsoft C 6.0 had an EXEMOD utility to do it, and the 1.2 toolkit
probably has a way to do it as well, though I don't know for sure.
Should be real easy to cobble one together yourself, too.

This seems like a stupid way to do it, but I guess it was done so
that stupid 1.1 programs which do DosFindFirsts won't crash when
run on an HPFS system.  Pity we have to put up with goofiness
like this, but better than killing old programs (even if they were
written wrong).  

--Peter Golde