Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 09:19:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Scott Blachowicz <scott AT statsci DOT com>
cc: leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP w/long file name support 
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Scott Blachowicz wrote:

> transformed into a native DOS path.  There's also other little tricks you
> might want like transforming /dev/tty into CON:, but that's relatively

You don't need that one with DJGPP: it knows about /dev/tty.

> > complete because it conflicts with some fundamental Make features such
> > as filename wildcards etc).
> 
> Not to mention having colons in filenames...

I think the Win32 version supports colons also.

> Yes, but I also need to use some native DOS tools which tend to like

Why?  IMHO, any native DOS tool can be replaced with a ported Unix tool.

> Do you have a handy bit of code that could auto-detect the condition of
> "running under NT"?

Call "_get_dos_version (1)" and see if it returns 5.50.  AFAIK, NT is the 
only case that returns that version number.