Date:	Sun, 7 Feb 1999 11:41:36 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender:	eliz AT is
To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: lfn vs sfn
In-Reply-To:	<199902070352.WAA29872@envy.delorie.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.990207114116.15342J-100000@is>
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Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Given the volume of people getting lfn/sfn installations wrong, I'd
> like to rethink the idea I had before about open() automatically
> checking both lfn and sfn (default one first, then the other) when
> asked to open files for reading.

This will not help on NT, of course.

In addition, I suspect that at least some programs use `stat' or
`access', rather than `open', to find out whether a file exists.

Also, there should be some way of turning off this feature.

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