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TurboC and windows.h library

Hello everyone,

I wrote a little program that makes a banner like linux banner command using TurboC 2.01, since I want to convert long filenames to short filenames, where I can find the windows.h library to add in the TurboC to use the GetShortPathName API function?

Or even is there a 32bit version of the 16bit instruction:

ch1 = (char far *)0xFFA6000EL + (ch * 8) + 1

so I could compile it with DJGPP obviously finding a windows.h library since I don't have it in the DJGPP include directory?

Thanks,
Ciao, Luigi

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npuleio

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OK sunnycoder,

then since I'm doing something like the Unix banner command, and I've found the bitmap argument as in the instruction I said in the previous post, do you know maybe how it's treated the bitmap character in 32bit mode so I could try to "convert" the 16bit code in 32bit code then compiling it with DJGPP instead of TurboC?

Thanks.
Ciao, Luigi

sunnycoder

Hi npuleio,

I do not know how windows treats the bitmap argument.

I am bit confused on this one but as far as I can recollect, Unix banner did not involve bitmaps. There have been questions on replicating the banner command functionality and the easiest way I remember is to read input char by char and have predefined ASCII patterns for each character entered. Not so elegant but works.

If you wish, I can reopen the question and you can wait for some windows Expert to comment on this.

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npuleio

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I don't think it does need to reopen... from your suggest about prefefined ascii patterns I'm just writing some code and in that way I guess it'll work for sure....
Thanks a lot anyway :-)
Ciao, Luigi

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