From: leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au (Leath Muller)
Message-Id: <199710062254.IAA11315@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Can't find header files
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:54:49 +1000 (EST)
Cc: erik DOT post AT student DOT utwente DOT nl, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971006161544.22702B-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Oct 6, 97 04:18:21 pm
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> IMHO, LFN should be always set to "y".  The startup code tests for 
> availability of LFN functions even when LFN=y, and won't use the LFN API 
> if it is not available (like on DOS or NT).  So it should do no harm
> setting it to "y" in all environments.

I prefer to use LFN=n as sometimes I have to write code for machines using
plain old DOS 6.22... I remember having a subtle bug once as I had 9 chars
in the filename (and using Win95 for development) and it took about 3 hours
to work out what was wrong (I won't go into it... ;)
 
> In fact, the next DJGPP release will set LFN=y in the distributed
> DJGPP.ENV.

Ewwww....

Leathal.