Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 15:02:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Yamaha / XYZZ <scriven AT CS DOT ColoState DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP v2.01 problems with Win95!!!
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Yamaha / XYZZ wrote:

> You say it supports LFNs better...  In what ways were they previously
> not supported as well?  I'm curious because what you said suggests to me
> that a bug in one of my programs might be a library bug, instead of an
> error on my part.

In v2.0, LFN support was unpredictable.  In some cases it would work, but 
in others it won't, sometimes in the same program, depending on the 
exactly how were the command-line arguments passed to it, and how did the 
program use `putenv' and `getenv' functions.

Also, the directory-related functions (such as `readdir') would always 
downcase the filename, whereas Windows 95 is a case-preserving system.

> I've had problems handling files with names longer
> than around 100 characters...  (V2.0)

I'm not aware of such problems.  Maybe a specific example would help 
here.