Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 19:48:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Scott Blachowicz <scott AT statsci DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Are "real" long filenames possible with DJGPP v2 (make)?
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On Sat, 18 May 1996, Scott Blachowicz wrote:

> So, I came up with these patches (probably mangled in transmission and not
> formatted to "standards", but anyways) to add support for a PRECASE
> variable (like the LFN variable you can set in DJGPP.ENV) in DJGPP and to
> add a NO_DOSIFY cpp define for make-3.73.

I think when LFN is set to y, opendir should always preserve case and 
the filenames shouldn't be dosified.  Why should a user be requested to 
define additional variables?  Is something wrong with what I suggest?

Btw, I always though that Win95 is case-preserving but case-insensitive. 
If I'm correct, then "TheLongFile" and "thelongfile" should be treated by
Win95 as if it were the same file.  Isn't this the case?