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

I never fuss with that EA.  Under OS/2 1.x,  pmfile.exe was the only
program that used it.  Under 2.x,  I think WPS is the only thing that uses
it (if you use the COPY or XCOPY commands from the command line,for
example,  they ignore this EA).

Therefore,  my programs will not allow long names with the FAT file system
(who cares).  The only programming changes I worry about are: full path
names can be up to 260 bytes (CCHMAXPATH),  and I don't assume there is
only only period in a file name.

To check the maximum file name len (ie: FAT or HPFS),  use
DosQuerySysInfo().

What I usually do is allow any name the user supplies,  then deal with the
error if it doesn't work,  buy displaying a useful error message and
letting them try again.

To allow your C program to use long file names with fopen() et al,don't
forget to link (Cset) with "NEWFILES" in your *.def file,  or use
the EXEHDR utility with the "/NEWFILES" switch.


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