Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 17:02:40 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Next DJGPP release (was: Emacs for DOS)
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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Mark Habersack wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >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

No, I meant LFN support on Windows 95.  It is currently (in v2.0) 
incomplete, with some subtle dependencies and quirks in few library 
functions; also, some ported packages (e.g. Make) don't work under LFN.

> 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?

I'm not sure this is worth the hassle.  Messing with DOS internals will 
typically bloat libc quite a lot (see `stat' and `fstat' that do some of 
such magic).  Also, without universal support for this feature in other 
(non-DJGPP) programs you are likely to run into filename conflicts.  
Anyway, just my $0.02.