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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:47:23 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: lfn from scratch... - network redirectors
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> From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Wojciech_Ga=B3=B1zka?= <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl>
> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 20:23:16 +0100
> 
> > They are supposed to support the LFN API via functions 71xx of Int
> > 21h. 
> 
> Are you sure this is the right way?
> >From what I've read DOS communicates with network redirecors through int
> 2fh,ax=11xxh only
> so it seems natural to extend redirector capabilities expanding int 2fh,
> ax=11xxh ...

2Fh/AH=11h aren't supposed to be called by applications, only by the
DOS kernel itself.  That's why you will see in their docs that SS
should point to the DOS data segment.

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