Re: PM toolkit 1.2

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From: Ralph Yozzo
Date: Thu, 31 May 1990 06:34

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In article <2784@husc6.harvard.edu> ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani) writes:
>
>	I just received my 1.2 PM toolkit upgrade and was slightly
>disappointed to find that it had the same version of link.exe (5.03)
>as the 1.1 PM toolkit.  The documentation doesn't mention anything
>about setting the long-filename flag though the new markexe.exe will
>do it.  Anyone know which version of link supports the new def keyword
>for long filenames?
>
>				Dan Lanciani
>				ddl@harvard.*


The linker that comes with OS/2 1.2 EE handles the NEWFILES bit.

The way to say that an application can see long file names
is to have a line in the .DEF that reads


NAME WINDOWCOMPAT NEWFILES

This turns on windowed execution and greater than 8.3 file names

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From: yozzo@larouch.uucp (Ralph Yozzo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: PM toolkit 1.2
Message-ID: <1990May31.063456.2793@larouch.uucp>
Date: 31 May 90 06:34:56 GMT
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