Re: Long filename sup****t in Windows Vista

In comp.lang.pascal.borland message <46cb1c09$0$30381$9b4e6d93@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:08:19, Wolf Behrenhoff
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> posted:
>Jim Leonard schrieb:
>> Someone asked me to write them a file-handling utility for use in the
>> console window (CMD.EXE) in Windows Vista.  The utility is quite easy
>> to write in something like Borland Pascal, but I've never done so for
>> Windows before; is it possible to handle long file/directory names
>> gracefully?

You write "I know this is probably a FAQ" - but if you'd looked in the
newsgroup mFAQ you'd not have needed to write "probably".

>No with Borland Pascal (with BP, there are LFN units but these only work
>under Windows 9x).

Andreas Killer's LFN appears to work in WinXP.

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