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Subject: Re: Odd failures in ls and dir
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 05:57:02 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii<eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrote:
> The bug (or rather a misfeature) is in Windows: it shouldn't allow
> file names that have characters untranslatable into the DOS codepage.
> Given that this is what happens, there's nothing a DJGPP program can
> do to remedy it.

I suspected as much. Thanks for your reply.

  --n