Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 14:19:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Bill Currie <bcurrie AT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Possible enhancements on v2.02
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On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Bill Currie wrote:

> I'm bringing this up because the lfn driver I'm working on hides the SFN
> of files that have LFNs (by default, this will be configurable).

*Bad* idea, IMHO.  This is NOT what Windows 9X does.  The LFN API
calls work with both long and short names.  If you disable that, some
pretty subtle bugs will surface.  I don't remember the exact examples
right now, but I *know* there are some cases when this feature saves
the day.