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Subject: Re: lfn from scratch... - network redirectors
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> From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Wojciech_Ga=B3=B1zka?= <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl>
> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:19:02 +0100
> 
> Ok, network redirectors ...
> There seems to be a problem with them because there is no interface
> to pass long file name as an argument.

They are supposed to support the LFN API via functions 71xx of Int
21h.  If they don't, they are simply a kind of DOS, and so they are
limited in the length of the file name exactly like DOS is.  In fact,
2Fh/AH=11h is supposed to be called with file names after they are
normalized by a call to 21h/AH=60h, so the names are already
truncated to 8+3 limits.

The problem I was thinking about was with a network redirector that
does support an LFN API, but one of the remote drive does not.  Such
a situation could utterly confuse DJGPP programs.

> Perhaps we could work around this by extending the 
> int 2F, AH=11 interface with LFN calls ?

What software will support these extended calls on the other end of
the network?