Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 16:29:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Ordering of global data
To: rh00 AT controls DOT eurotherm DOT co DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>I have some C which I am (cross)compiling which generates some global
>data declarations.  The order of this data is important to me and I am
>having some trouble getting the compiler to leave it in the order in
>which it is declared.
Why, pray tell, _is_ the order so important?  One presumes that the
data are somehow related, in which case it might be better to put
them in a struct.  AFAIK, structs are non-rearrangeable.

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t fine!

In a DOS session, the new long file name calls are just simple DOS 
interrupts (see Ralf Brown's interrupt list) which makes long names easy to 
implement.  Other Win 95 features are not accessible this easily, sorry.
It would even be theoretically possible to support long names on
Pre-Win 95 systems with a TSR or device driver.