Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 17:57:04 +0300
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	Williams on Tue, 8 May 2001 09:17:44 -0500)
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> Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:17:44 -0500
> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> -: > Can someone find out the status of LFN support add-ons for NT and DOS?
> -: 
> -: Is it really so important, given that W2K supports the LFN API?
> 
> I believe LFN support for plain DOS is critical, and long overdue.

Please explain why do you think so, especially given the fact (or
rather my estimate) that the number of plain DOS users nowadays should
be insignificant.  Even though I'm one of them.

> I have only two more patches to apply to djasm.y before the stock
> DJGPP djasm can be used to build Bill Currie's M$-DOG LFN TSR
> (http://www.taniwha.org/lfn.zip).  I'm hoping this will encourage others
> to work with Bill's LFN TSR (it's useable as is, and IMHO it won't take
> much to move it to a stable beta stage).

No offence, but personally, I'd hesitate to let any TSR futz with my
disk on the sector level.

Note that the NT LFN TSR is a different story: the OS there maintains
the files, the TSR just translates the names and srvices provided by
the OS.