Hello,

PH>Hi Mike!

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 MB> I'm writing an OS/2 app, and would like to include support for HPFS
 MB> long names.  I've never worked with long names, or EAs at all for
 MB> that matter.  :)  Could someone explain or give me an example of how
 MB> to access the EA.Longname from my program?

Also, when adding support for long files names, make sure that your
code doesn't assume file names are in the 8.3 format. While this
might be rare, some non OS/2 code that I have does just that.

PH>EA.Longname ist only good for a sort of "longname emulation" on FAT-
PH>partitions (as it's done by the WPS). You won't have to 
PH>deal with it at all when using HPFS. Normally you only need 
PH>a larger buffer for the filenames to add HPFS-support in 
PH>your programs (when you recompile them with a 32-Bit OS/2 
PH>compiler).

It also is used be the WPS to allow users to give files non HPFS
file names (for example, '/', the new line and carriage return
characters are not supported by HPFS, but can be entered in WPS)

Brian May
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