Mail Archives: opendos/2003/03/10/17:55:01
Hi Matthias,
Thanks for confirming what I suspected ... I was/am looking at the
LTOOLS source code (to make this compatible with DR-DOS 6.0)
and noticed that it simply assumes LFN is available if running under
Windoze, otherwise not. If there was a "standard" way of detecting
LFN, I was going to change LTOOLS accordingly. However, I think
I'll leave this aspect of the code alone, rather than risk "breaking" it.
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Paul [SMTP:Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de]
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 11:49 PM
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: DR-DOS LFN detection?
>
> On 2003-03-06, Joe da Silva wrote:
>
> > Now, does anyone know what technique it uses to determine if an LFN
> > API is available? There doesn't seem to be any "installation check"
> > sort of sub-function listed under INT 21/71 (in Ralf Brown's interrupt
> > list).
>
> You're right, there is no "install check" per se, but you can check
> the availability of the LFN API by carefully looking at the error
> return (Flags). RBIL61 has the details.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Matthias
>
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