Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:14:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Next DJGPP release (was: Emacs for DOS)
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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> I keep reading about it for some time now, and
>> really, I'm curious to see what's new? 
>
>There are bugs in the library and utilities (see the list of bugs at
>http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/bugs/) that will be corrected.  New ports of
>some GNU packages (Binutils, GDB, Findutils, Fileutils, Textutils,
>Sh-utils, Emacs, maybe also Make) will be added.  The long filenames
>support should be fixed.  Again, ask DJ for more complete info, I'm not
 ^^^^What exactly? I am writing a library to allow access to LFNs even under
DOS 3.3. It will allow any application to read & create LFNs (although
creation feature is a bit problemmatic. It requires messing up with DOS
internals and also makes all the disk maintanance tools for DOS <7 unusable.).
Anyway, I think such a support (even read-only) would be make some things
easier. Opinions? Maybe this should make it into DJGPP libc?

Regards, Mark

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