Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:34:04 -0300
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: LFN
Cc: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl,
        Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT fb0432 DOT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 19:27 19/09/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:
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>> Precisely! DJTAR does a superb job, but one still has to resolve problems
>> that arise from "name colisions" that appear when one starts a makefile!
>
>Do you seriously expect a program to be smart enough to do such a job 
>automagically?
>
Of course not! That's why I placed in my very first post to this thread that
my comments were "food for thought" for people that were asking if the hard
work of trying to have Long Filename support for DOS that were not Win95 was
worth the effort.

OTH, may be if the algorithm used by DJTAR could be ported to an AWK or PERL
script, may be we could come close!
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