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Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:42:50 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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> From: "FreeDOSfan" <grup AT discardmail DOT com>
> Date: 18 Feb 2005 01:11:01 -0800
> 
> "We need Microsoft to give DOS programs a way to access
> 64-bit file I/O interface"
> 
> NO. We can bypass the DOS and its I/O interface.

You mean, talk directly to the device and implement the entire
filesystem layer ourselves?  It would be silly to expect the DJGPP
project to do anything like that.  If someone needs large files so
badly, they can always install GNU/Linux on their machine.

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