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From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Wojciech_Ga=B3=B1zka?= <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: "'djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: ODP: Win2K/XP fixes - implementation review
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:30:30 +0200
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> Od: 	Eli Zaretskii[SMTP:eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il]
> Wysłano: 	27 sierpnia 2001 18:24
> Do: 	Wojciech Gałązka
> DW: 	'djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com'
> Temat: 	Re: ODP: Win2K/XP fixes - implementation review
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Wojciech_Ga=B3=B1zka?= wrote:
> 
> > But what do you mean by " NT 4 + LFN
> > is forced to make a lot of extra calls which aren't required." Which
> ones ?
> 
> Charles meant to say that the NT4+NTLFN combo is treated by the 
> work-arounds as if it were W2K or XP.  These work-arounds issue 
> additional DOS calls, which are completely unnecessary in the case of 
> NTLFN, since its LFN support doesn't have any of the bugs we found in 
> W2K.
> 
> So we simply punish NTLFN users, for no good reason (well, there is a 
> reason: the way we detect W2K cannot distinguish between these two system 
> configurations).
> 
So in that case the NT4 + LFN can be distinguished from W2K by calling int21
AX=07171h, BX=1
which is understood ny NTLFN driver only