From: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
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Subject: Re: need help with LFN please...
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:05:57 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> _dos_* functions don't support LFN, by design.

Is this lacking LFN support intentional? Why?
Why would a program for instance that uses _dos_open not give support to
LFNs?

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