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Date:	Tue, 11 Jun 2002 22:17:31 +0100
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: djgpp\config.bat, the arguments temp file and Windows NT
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Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

Charles Sandmann wrote:
>
> Richard Dawe wrote:
[snip]
> > I'm guessing that not many people build packages on Windows NT 4!
> 
> I think you're right there; and I believe there will be even fewer in the
> future since most of those NT 4 users will upgrade to Windows 2000.
> 
> Given how well the LFN TSR works on NT, why not just say it's a requirement
> when building these packages?

That was my plan for release 1 of Fileutils 4.1. I was going to mark building
under Windows NT without an LFN TSR as unsupported in the readme.dos file, but
possible with a little hacking.

I don't think it would require much effort to fix this. A quick fix would be
to include a script that runs the sed script to generate configure. That way
the redirection would take place in bash, which would produce a file with the
right 8+3 name - i.e.: it would overwrite the current configure (aka
"configur" in 8+3 land). Hmmm, actually I'll do that for Fileutils 4.1.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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