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To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:34:19 +0200
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Subject:	Re: DOSEMU and LFN
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On 10 Jan 2002 at 12:13, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> > Only a wild guess. Maybe it's possible to extend a redirector 
> > ( src/dosext/mfs/ ) to handle also LFN functions.
> 
> The mfs redirector relies on DOS's network redirector.  If the DOS you
> install in dosemu doesn't support LFN, you're screwed.  I'm using DOS
> 6.22, which doesn't support LFN.
> 

So perhaps we could only reimplement all disk I/O (including non LFN)
for LFN capable drives in plugin. One remaining question is whether DOS itself 
uses int 0x21XX functions for file access or also internal ones.

Andris

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