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   Wolf Behrenhoff to Jim Leonard   
   Re: Long filename support in Windows Vis   
   21 Aug 07 19:08:19   
   
   From: NoSpamPleaseButThisIsValid3@gmx.net   
      
   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?   
      
   No with Borland Pascal (with BP, there are LFN units but these only work   
   under Windows 9x).   
      
   Yes with FreePascal, Delphi and so on (they have native support for LFNs).   
      
   Wolf   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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