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From: ballard@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: DosFindFirst with HPFS names ?
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Date: 11 Apr 90 20:28:31 GMT
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In article <54035@microsoft.UUCP> t-willb@microsoft.UUCP (Wiliam BONNER) writes:
>The way to get long filenames in OS/2 1.2 is to use the DosFindFirst2 
>function instead of the DosFindFirst function.

The important thing isn't whether you use DosFindFirst or DosFindFirst2, 
but whether the calling program is marked as "HPFS-aware".  There is a 
new flag in the EXE file header that indicates whether the program is 
prepared to deal with long file names.  This flag can ben set with 
a grungy little program that patches the header (several are floating
around on various systems...), or with the new toolkit, by a specification
in the DEF file. 
 



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