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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:00:11 +0000
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Subject: Re: lfn for dos
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> Some days ago a found an interesting program surfing the internet. It's
> an lfn driver for dos, it's freely available with source code, and it's
> not too far from working flawlessly ;-) Well, at least djtar workes with
> it. If anybody is interested here is the link:
> 
>  http://ludens.elte.hu/~sta/lfndos.html
> 

I noticed in its readme.txt it mentions that DJGPP has a bug in
closedir(). Can any of the RTL gurus comment on this?

>- HVSC_2 for Windows'95 (High Voltage SID Collection  1.6 -> 2.0  
>update):  It keeps opening more than 500 directory search records without
> closing any of  them. This is a problem with DJGPP: although opendir()
>and readdir() close the search record automatically when there is no more
>directory entry to read, closedir() never does.

And I found another URL that has a package that adds LFN to DOS:
http://members.xoom.com/dosuser/

Mark

-- 
Mark Elbrecht snowball3 AT usa DOT net
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