Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:28:48 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 30 May 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> Win NT 
> always seems to be a different story, but I don't have access to a NT 
> machine where try I can try it out.

NT doesn't emulate the SFT.  We will need some fallback (and a method to 
detect the lack of SFT support to go with it).  One possible way of 
detecting this problem is used by `fstat'.

I have some limited access to an NT box, so if you send a source, I can 
compile it and run some tests on NT.