From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: W2K/XP fncase
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:59:20 -0500 (CDT)
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I'll make return an int and add space to the exclude list.  Does fcntl.h
seem a reasonable place to put a function like _is_DOS83 ?

Making . and .. legal is trivial.  Is this the right thing (they really
aren't 8.3 names)?  Or document to not to send them?

> > Yes, but the question remains - do we leave the current code as-is,
> > or update it with DH=1 (which works for some file names), or just 
> > document it's bad, or insert emulation code?
> 
> I'd suggest to document for now and leave it as is.  We can return to
> this later; this is not a grave problem if it doesn't affect the rest
> of the library.

It turns out the current LFN tsr for NT returns the name in the entered 
case (not upper) for the short name if DH=1 - so trying to make things 
better on W2K/XP would make things worse on NT with LFN.  Yes, we could
fix it, but I think it's more reason to just document and leave it alone.
Sigh.