From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: need help with LFN please...
Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 1998 16:07:52 +0300
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Vik Heyndrickx wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > _dos_* functions don't support LFN, by design.
> 
> Is this lacking LFN support intentional? Why?

Because their author wrote them like that, and nobody bothered to add the 
LFN support.

I could of course think about a case where this might be desirable.  Not 
that I'm sure whether these cases are important enough to be against any 
changes in _dos_* functions.

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