Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 14:10:13 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 2 May 2000, nimrod a. abing wrote:

> BTW. Why does it crash? Isn't `char *stringtable[]' 
> equivalent to `char **stringtable'? Please explain
> what happens.

I don't have the source anymore, so I cannot comment on your
questions.  As far as I remember, the code dereferenced a NULL
pointer.

> >> C:\>deltree c:\windows
> >> Delete directory "Windows" and all its subdirectories? [yn] y
> >> Deleting Windows...
> >
> >The above seems to suggest that you yourself do use Windows ;-)
> >
> 
> Yes. For two reasons.

It is okay to use Windows if you have to, there's no need to
apologize.

I was just pointing out that lobbying people to remove Windows while
you yourself are using it looks---how shall I put it?---odd...

> Just a thought, has anyone figured out how to use LFN
> from MS-DOS mode in Win9x? In DOS mode, Win9x seems to 
> forget how to read long file names.

You can't.  The LFN support is part of the Windows file I/O layer,
and that part of Windows is shut down when you go to DOS mode.