Date:	Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:56:57 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject:	Re: LFN=y and MS-RAMDRIVE
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> According to Eli Zaretskii:
> > What does ``_use_lfn ("g:/")'' return?
[snip]
> says
> 
> "0.
> "

Yep, it seems the MS RAM drive doesn't support long file names.  I'd bet 
they simply didn't want to work on the driver to make it LFN-aware.  What 
a joke!

You should be able to change the sources of `sort' to make it call 
_use_lfn on the temp file prefix, instead of using _USE_LFN.  

But personally, I won't recommend using that RAM drive at all, since many
other programs will probably fail in ``interesting'' ways.  DJGPP does not
live well with systems where some drives support LFN while others don't,
since too many library functions call _USE_LFN, and the logic inside
_use_lfn that caches the last drive it was called with isn't perfect... 

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