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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
Subject: Re: gcc difficulties on MSDOS 6.22 with LFN driver installed
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> From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:17:54 +0200
> Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> 
> The functions generating EOVERFLOW are filelength() and lfilelength().  Both of
> them usefunction  0x7A46 to get the file size if LFN support is available.  But I
> assume that neither MSDOS nor DOSLFN  provide the required function.

Perhaps we should not fail these library functions if 7A46 returns an
error that translates into EOVERFLOW, but instead invoke the SFN
equivalent.