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From: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 18:36:11 +0000
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Subject: Re: The compiling tools
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On  8 Apr 97 at 16:54, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:

> I'd say that from the moment it runs ok with the LFN support from DJGPP,
> we'll have something...

Indeed. DJGPP can start by using the real mode interface, but I think
everyone will be eager to change libc to use an enhanced protected
mode interface to this TSR if one is found; that'll be faster.

> I run Linux here, and when I do DOS or Win95, I do
> it with bash, using sh-utils (ls, mv, rm, etc...)... It's a shame they
> works ultra-nice in Win95, but stalls on the long or weird filenames in
> bare DOS (like choking on dotfiles)...

With an ext2 IFS, you can use the same filesystem as with Linux :-)
 
> Pierre Phaneuf
 
ABW
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