Date:	Thu, 14 May 1998 12:44:45 +0200 (WET)
From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	Gerhard Gruber <sparhawk AT eunet DOT at>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Compile probs.... --ACK!! Long file name probl & win 95!!!
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On Thu, 14 May 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 13 May 1998, Gerhard Gruber wrote:
> 
> > Yes. But under Linux there is a vfat driver available. Shouldn't it be "easy"
> > to port this to plain DOS?
> 
> I have never seen that driver, but I'd guess it's anything but ``easy''. 
> Low-level disk access in Linux is very different from DOS/BIOS calls. 
> 

There is some beta level driver for Caldera DR-OpenDos that is told to 
provide LFN support for DR-OpenDOS. I haven't tried this, so cannot tell 
more. As I remember it's in caldera ftp site 

Andris

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