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Date: 08 Jan 2004 16:08:06 +0200
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: a bug for ls.exe, cat.exe in windows?
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> From: "bdeck" <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:12:07 +0100
> > >
> > > Do you know if DJGPP library will support multibye in the future?
> >
> > It will, if someone sits down and writes the code.
> 
> Would these packages be useful for a start:
> llocl02s.zip, lmb051s.zip, lw03s.zip
> 
> ??

Yes, except that these packages are distributed under the GNU license,
while the DJGPP library only accepts code that can be distributed
under a different license; GPL code cannot be used.

So someone will have to come up with a different implementation and
donate it to DJGPP under the DJGPP distribution terms.

Of course, DJGPP users can download the above packages for their own
use, install them, and then reconfigure and recompile ls.exe etc. to
get binaries that do support multibyte characters in file names.