Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:38:45 +0300
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:24:35 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> You can load ntlfn.08 on Windows 2000.  It fixes many lfn bugs.  So, if you
> don't have time to rebuild images, load ntlfn instead.  Why didn't
> I think of that before?
> 
> The free implementation is better than the one you pay for ...

Like I said: perhaps we should sell NTLFN to Microsoft, and recover
some of Andrew's and Wojciech's costs ;-)

Seriously, though: I guess the difference is in how the LFN support is
tested.  NTLFN was tested by building and running DJGPP programs,
which is quite a demanding suite of apps, since our libc calls about
every LFN function that's been documented.  I'm guessing that MS's
testing was much less extensive, and probably didn't even include
DJGPP (what? why should we cater to freeware packages?).