From: mad AT bluestar DOT com (Mike Demoulin)
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Subject: Re: touch.exe fails for win2000
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 20:02:34 GMT
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:09:52 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>I'm guessing that Windows 2000 doesn't like the system calls issued by
>`touch' to set the file's time stamp.  Someone should step with a debugger
>into the library function `utime', which `touch' calls, and see what's going
>on there on W2K.  I cannot do this myself, since I don't have access to a W2K
>machine.
>
>You could try to set LFN=n and see if that makes the problem go away.  If it
>does, it means that W2K somehow doesn't support function 5705h of Int 21h
>provided by Windows 9X for setting the file's last-access time, or has some
>problem with that function.

Setting LFN=n worked. Should I report this as a bug?