From: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
Message-Id: <200102281619.RAA07057@lws256.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: LFN and FreeDOS
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 101 17:19:18 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <9743-Tue27Feb2001212131+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Feb 27, 1 09:21:32 pm
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> If we know that FreeDOS always returns AX=1, we can add a special
> clause for that OS only.  I wouldn't recommend to make a more general
> change in _use_lfn, such as allow all AX codes to mean LFN is
> unsupported, since the code in _use_lfn is tricky, took several
> iterations to get right, and worked more-or-less flawlessly since the
> last change.

Ok. It seems to be a bug in FreeDOS. (It's already been fixed,
actually, in the CVS sources.)

Thanks for the explaination.


Right,

						MartinS