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- From: marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold)
- Subject: Re: Is there a patch to use Long Filenames in Borland 4.0???
- Message-ID: <marnoldDoLvwM.2DI@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 07:09:58 GMT
- Sender: marnold@netcom17.netcom.com
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- monsted@cybercity.dk (Monsted) writes:
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- >marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold) wrote:
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- >>Caius Martius <caius@nando.net> writes:
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- >>>I use Unix at school and Windows 95 at home. My programming assignments
- >>>usually have long filenames. So it would be wonderfull if there was a
- >>>way I could get Borland 4.0 to use long filenames.
-
- >>You mean the IDE itself, right? For all your project files, etc.?
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- >>Well, sorry, not possible. Borland C++ 4.0 is a Windows 3.1 application
- >>and will only *ever* be able to use DOS-style 8.3 names.
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- >>Borland C++ 5.0, shipping any day now, in a full-featured Win32 program
- >>designed for Windows 95 and NT. It supports long file names for
- >>everything. Other development tools available for Windows 95, etc. also
- >>obviously support LFNs.
-
- >Is there any special reason, that you can't just change the names to
- >8.3 format??
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- I'm not sure what you mean by that but a long file name in Windows 95
- can be anything you want; it can even still look like an 8.3 name---
- simply limit yourself to 8 characters with a 3 character extension
- when you make up your file names you are cruising DOS-style again.
-
- But, why would you want to do that?
-
- Regards,
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