Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:22:45 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Student at Wageningen Agricultural University <look AT messa DOT ge>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: MAX... constants
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Student at Wageningen Agricultural University wrote:

> MAXDIR=66, MAXFILE=9 and MAXEXT=5. That might be proper values for plain
> DOS, but not for Win 9x.

`fnsplit' in DJGPP v2.01 doesn't support Windows 9X at all (try calling 
it on a file name like ".emacs").  It is a compatibility function that 
was originally designed to work like its namesake from Borland C (which 
also doesn't support long names).

In v2.02 `fnsplit' will handle long file names correctly, and the MAXxxx 
constants will be enlarged accordingly.