MB>
  > I'm writing an OS/2 app, and would like to include support
  > for HPFS long names.
MB>

  I'm so glad that you gave me the opportunity to trot out the answer to
  this question again ... (-:

  To enable an OS/2 program to use long filenames on HPFS, NFS, or
  NETWARE installable filesystems, you need to do these things :

      1.  NOTHING !

  It's that simple.  When you do the above, all calls to the OS/2 API
  (DosOpen, DosFindFirst, DosMove and so on) and the calls in the C
  runtime library that use the OS/2 API (fopen, open, remove, rename and
  so on) will use long filenames with no further intervention.

  (  Those people with ancient 16-bit compilers, using LINK.EXE instead
     of LINK386.EXE, need to add NEWFILES to the NAME statement of the
     DEF file and ensure that they have the 1.3 version of the
     Developers' Toolkit which has CCHMAXPATH set to 260 in   )

  You can if you like add support for the .longname extended attribute
  on 8.3 filesystems such as FAT or CDROM, but that's a lot more
  difficult, and not IMO worth the bother.

  > JdeBP <
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