Fri 2003-01-17 13:41, Bob Jones (1:343/41) wrote to All 16-bit (DOS) Max users:

 > Since I plan to take the code forward with support for long file names, 
 > etc., would anyone object to removing the 16-bit (DOS and OS/2) 
 > compiled versions from future development?

FWIW, it is possible to have support for LFNs in 16-bit DOS programs.  I
think you need to write wrappers around fopen(), FindFirst(), etc, though. 
But you would need to do that for the 32-bit DOS Watcom build anyway.  I
think it's just DJGPP that has C library support for LFNs in DOS, but I
can't say for sure, because I'm only going by memory, and that feature
doesn't seem to work in Windows 2000, so maybe I imagined it.

 > The new future targets in this case would be Win32, OS/2 (32-bit),
 > Unix based (Linux, FreeBSD, maybe NeXT Step / Open Step / Mac OS/X),
 > and possibly a 32-bit DOS extender (if someone is willing to help in
 > this area).  

I hope you're used to dealing with byte ordering (endian) issues, for the
non-i386 ports.  :-)

One of my test boxes is a PowerPC running Linux.  It can be a bit of a
challenge porting some things that assume "Little Endian"
architecture.

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