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	Delorie on Wed, 26 Dec 2001 13:17:28 -0500)
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> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 13:17:28 -0500
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> The first drive checked is *always* the non-lfn one, because I can't
> change to that drive before starting bash (or other djgpp programs).
> So I can't even say "well, start with the lfn one and just never use
> the others, and we'll get by."

Why do you have to change to a drive at all?  You are mapping a
Unix-style filesystem into DOS drive letters, right?  So all you
should need is some data structure that maps the root of each drive to
a Unix directory, and something that says what is the current drive.
How does changing drives enter this picture?

> So it seems that for the non-lfn drives, I need to emulate the lfn
> api, at least in a dumb way (by calling the non-lfn api in its place).

That would be the best strategy, I think.  NTLFN does that, and it
works well.