Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 01:25:15 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 
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On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:

> The info zip team might get lfn support first, and given the whole
> spirit behind opendos priority for support might better go to zip and
> unzip rather than pkzip. 

Good point, but remember, I was making an abstract point, there's probably
a lot of other 8.3 programs people use in an specific manner and expect
the same results regardless filenames, unless they were modifying one of
the files involved in their progam, the last thing you would want to have
happen is a silent crash which goes un-noticed for several months.

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