Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:14:27 +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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>,
        Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT fb0432 DOT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: LFN
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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:
>
>> Precisely! DJTAR does a superb job, but one still has to resolve problems
>> that arise from "name colisions" that appear when one starts a makefile!
>
>Do you seriously expect a program to be smart enough to do such a job 
>automagically?
Sure not! But having LFN support for DOS would mean that the program doesn't
have to be smart at all about file names. It could just assume that the file
will be created with its original, possibly long name.

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