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Thanks Charles,  that link provides some really useful stuff.  I am willing
to help get things converted, tested and running A-OK.... just gotta get
my senior year project out of the way....


"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:
>What I suggest is to visit the DJGPP on W2K web page:
>  http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm
>Visit the link that describes know problems and workarounds
>
>The biggest set of workarounds is to disable long file names.  The
>long name support in Windows 2000 is buggy, and there are some calls that
>just return *WRONG* information if you open the file as a long file name.
>
>We are trying to be creative to work around the MS bugs.  Most of them
>are there in Windows XP also.
>
>> I dont wanna just hack you guys down.  Your product is very cool.  I (and
>> every other NT5 user out there) would just love it if you would provide
a
>> simple fix!
>
>No simple fixes, but there are about a dozen medium effort and 2-3 really
>hard ones we're working on.  Many things are functional with a few patches,
>but not all of them.



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