Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:20:58 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ian Miller <itmiller AT dra DOT hmg DOT gb>
cc: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: The "Can't backup file..." patch Win95+LFN bug
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On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Ian Miller wrote:

> So, IMHO, either this is because I built my libc with LFN undefined
> or the distributed patch.exe was built with an old libc. (This is
> patch 2.1 as distributed with DJGPP v2.01 BTW.)

I don't see how building libc with LFN undefined can influence
anything at run time.  And patch.exe from pat21b.zip that I have (size
117248 bytes, date Oct 19, 1996) is built with a library that was
itself built on Oct 19, so this is the latest libc.  You can see what
version of the library is linked in using `strings':

		strings -a patch.exe | less

Page down to the end of the output, then back up and look for a string
like so:

   $Id: DJGPP libc built Oct 19 1996 11:26:11 by gcc 2.7.2.1 $

If you have RCS installed, it's even easier: type "ident patch.exe"
and you will see the above line.