Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 13:38:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Babcock <babcock AT shell1 DOT cybercom DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Error in _use_lfn documentation
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On 5 Feb 1997, Robert Babcock wrote:

> I would suggest a small rewording of the documentation from:

Thanks.

> It doesn't seem to hurt anything to make LFN calls from
> Win95 to a drive which doesn't support LFN.

Oh, yes, it does.  If DJGPP erroneously thinks that a drive supports 
LFN when in fact it doesn't, all file-oriented functions will fail,
because libc calls the LFN functions in that case, and they will all 
return with failure.  Wasn't this whole thread born when you had such 
problems on that OS/2 FAT drive?

> Now, I wonder what happens with Netware drives when the long namespace is
> installed...

It should work.  But I'll be happy to hear any experiences about that.