Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 11:41:36 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: lfn vs sfn
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On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Given the volume of people getting lfn/sfn installations wrong, I'd
> like to rethink the idea I had before about open() automatically
> checking both lfn and sfn (default one first, then the other) when
> asked to open files for reading.

This will not help on NT, of course.

In addition, I suspect that at least some programs use `stat' or
`access', rather than `open', to find out whether a file exists.

Also, there should be some way of turning off this feature.