Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:32:27 +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: Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Next DJGPP release (was: Emacs for DOS)
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On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Alexander Lehmann wrote:

>Well, any program that checks for LFN support via the presence of
>Win95 can IMHO be considered buggy enough to be ignored. As long
>this works with djgpp and reasonably sensible other programs I think
>it is ok. Obviously we don't want it to break other programs, but this
>will not happen with the win95 detect bug, I think.
Right. In this light, it really might be better to write a TSR "provider"
instead of writing C library. Only it will take a little more time to develop,
as it has to be coded in assembler ;-))
Anyway, I'm working on that...

>No, sorry I meant a TSR to supply the LFN INTs would be useful based
Sorry, I misunderstood you.

>on the filename support already available in the system. E.g. NT
>supports VFAT16 as well as NTFS with long names (at least 4.0beta
  ^^^^^^does it? You mean the extended INT21 functions? I thought it was left
out of this version?

>does). In the case of Linux, supporting kernel supported long
>filenames (VFAT,ext2fs, rockridge etc) via the LFN api would also be
>useful, I think the normal behaviour of dosemu is to do some
>namemangling.
So it would close in just adding some code to dosemu to handle the INT21
extended calls.

Mark

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