Date:	Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:50:36 -0300
Message-Id:	<1.5.4.16.19960918095131.372fa606@dmeasc.rc.ipt.br>
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To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl,
	Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT fb0432 DOT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
From:	Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject:	Re: LFN
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 12:57 18/09/96 +0200, Mark Habersack wrote:
>On 17 Sep 1996, Alexander Lehmann wrote:
>
>>When you are running djgpp v2 programs under Win95 (not DOS7), they
>>support LFN if the environment variable LFN is set to y. If you are
>>running only DOS7 without Win95 or DOS6.22, it is not available
>>(neither in Win NT 4.0). There have been some discussion on the list
>>recently if it would be possible to add LFN support functions to old
>>DOS maybe with a TSR, but nothing has been done yet (I think).
>Well, actually I have written a lib to read LFNs on any DOS. I think I'll be
>ready to release it next week. Now, as we speaking about that, do you think
>that supporting CREATION of LFN entries on any DOS makes sense? It requires
>writing virtually all access routines - DOS can't help here... 
>

I have not a formed opinion still, but as food for thought:
when one downloads some nice package originally delopped w/u**x in mind,
several filenames are longer than 8+3; to have means of doing that would
easy the work on the port, given this support could be incorported in (at
least) one port of some shell (e.g., bash), the decompressing utility (more
often than not, gzip) and of course, make.

All the above comes from a concrete case. A downloaded the lclint package
mentioned in an earlier post, and I am spending a lot to hacking the stuff
in order to be able to compile w/DJGPP!

>Marek
>
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>So if you ask me how do I feel inside, I could honestly tell you we've
>been taken on a very long ride. And if my owners let me have free time
>some day, with all good intention I would probably run away!
>Clutching the short straw...
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