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From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Next DJGPP release (was: Emacs for DOS)
Date: 26 Aug 1996 18:00:53 GMT
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Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl> wrote:

.... LFN support for plain DOS. ...

: Until Micro$oft won't provide
: support for LFNs in DOS (will they ever do?) such a library might be needed. 

Actually, instead of putting this into a C library, wouldn't it be
considerably better to suppy a DOS TSR that implements the necessary
INT calls so that all programs (not only djgpp) can use this and also
djgpp program do not require to be recompiled.

Also, apparently the same may be necessary for other platforms not
supporting LFN in DOS but in their native environment (OS/2, NT4,
Linux dosemu), though it will be considerably easier there, I guess.


bye, Alexander

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