From:	"Erik Post" <erik DOT post AT student DOT utwente DOT nl>
To:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Can't find header files
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:57:13 +0200
Message-Id:	<01bcd268$21417160$c6e35982@junglejim.student.utwente.nl>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Erik Post <erik DOT post AT student DOT utwente DOT nl>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Monday, October 06, 1997 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: Can't find header files


>IMHO, LFN should be always set to "y".  The startup code tests for
>availability of LFN functions even when LFN=y, and won't use the LFN API
>if it is not available (like on DOS or NT).  So it should do no harm
>setting it to "y" in all environments.


Ok, maybe it's not a bad idea after all. I had NT on my machine some time
ago, and I had some problems with LFNs (especially emacs). When answering
the message in the newsgroup, I thought I had set LFN to n. Suppose it
must've been the unzip program...

>In fact, the next DJGPP release will set LFN=y in the distributed
>DJGPP.ENV.

Next release? When will it come out? (just curious)

Erik Post

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