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Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961021103632.0067ac20@mv.mv.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:36:32 -0400
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Howard Kaikow <kaikow AT standards DOT com>
Subject: Re: HK: v 2.1
Cc: Howard Kaikow <kaikow AT standards DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Yes, that proves that DJGPP does not really have LFN support. If it did, it
would be looking at the long file name when LFN=y, not the short DOS name. I
consider that to be a bug in the DJGPP LFN support.

Edit is the built-in Edit program.

At 08:16 AM 10/21/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>I probably failed to make myself clear enough, but your DIR output just
>confirms what I suspected: it's Windows 95 fault!  Look at the listing
>above: the short 8+3 alias for `psbook.exe0' is `psbook.exe', not
>something like `psbook~1.exe.  Therefore, when the linker opens a file
>called `psbook.exe', Windows overwrites `psbook.exe0' since as far as
>Windows is concerned, a file called `psbook.exe' already exists!  The bug 
>is in Windows 95 rename file function: it should have changed the 8+3 
>alias when renaming the file, or else the file was not really renamed.  
>The new v2.01 library works around this bug in its `rename' function, so 
>if you use a program such as `mv' to rename files, this problem won't 
>happen.
>
>> 1. Make a text file, x.abc0
>> 2. open the file with Edit x.abc0
>> 3. While in Edit, do a FileSaveAs with the name x.abc
>> 4. Exit Edit
>> 
>> Both x.abc0 and x.abc exist, so it is not a Win 95 problem.
>
>This just means that Edit (whatever that is) works around this bug.  
>Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.01 also works in the above way on Windows 
>95, but that doesn't imply that the bug doesn't exist, just that the 
>application was smart enough to get its thing right, the bug 
>notwithstanding.
>
>

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