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- From: Philippe Verdy <100105.3120@compuserve.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Is there a patch to use Long Filenames in Borland 4.0???
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 00:40:38 GMT
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- marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold) s'Θcrit :
- > monsted@cybercity.dk (Monsted) writes:
- >
- > >marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold) wrote:
- >
- > >>Caius Martius <caius@nando.net> writes:
- >
- > >>>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.?
- >
- Using a small software like Name-IT, you can extend nearly
- every Win3.1 application that use file list-boxes to support
- long file names under Win95. You select a file with long
- file name, and the software simply receives its 8.3 short
- name equivalent that can be used in your Borland project files.
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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.
- >
- > >>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.
- >
- Borland C++ 4.0x works under Win95 with short names, however
- the application expert is inoperant to generate the code
- template, and gives an error while accessing the program
- database (it creates files using long filenames which were
- simply cut off to 8.3 under Win3.1, but which it cannot
- retreive later because Win95 mapped them to different
- 8.3 short names containing "~n" characters).
- You can develop, compile, link, run and debug your C/C++
- programs, but without the AppExpert, and the ClassExpert, and
- without support for the new Win95 API's !
- ------------------------------------------------------------
-
- > >Is there any special reason, that you can't just change the names to
- > >8.3 format??
- >
- > 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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- > Matt Arnold | | ||| | |||| | | | || ||
- > marnold@netcom.com | | ||| | |||| | | | || ||
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