Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:13:21 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: David Monksfield <drm AT dera DOT gov DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: need help with LFN please...
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> > Use _chmod if you need to get/set the DOS attributes for long file names.
> 
> Err... but he wanted to get/set things like the system bit, and `chmod'
> won't do those.

I didn't say `chmod', I said `_chmod'.  The latter is a direct
interface to the DOS functions 43h and 7143h, depending on whether LFN
is off or on.  So it supports all the DOS attributes, including the
system bit.