Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:12:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject: Re: LFN=y and MS-RAMDRIVE
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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> So with TMPDIR=g:\ where g: is a RAMDISK of that kind and LFN=y, "ls
> -alR f:/ | sort -nb +4 | less" in bash gives "F:/DJGPP/BIN/sort.exe:
> g:\/sort0469600000: Permission denied (EACCES)"

I think this evidence is too circumstantial.  In particular, it's not 
clear to me why non-support for LFN should result in EACCES.

Could you please do something simpler to verify this problem, like
copy a file with a long name to the RAM disk and then list the
directory there with `ls' or DIR?