Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 13:33:36 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: gdb problem or just silly me - please help
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On Sat, 6 May 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> It's actually not so simple.  The LFN support that you use on Windows 9X
> is the same code Windows itself uses to access files, albeit through a
> backdoor.  In other words, the LFN API is simply an alternative entry
> point into the Windows' native file I/O routines!
> 
> So, if Microsoft would want to add this support to DOS, they'd need to
> rewrite the Windows file I/O code so that it would work inside DOS,
> and then add that code to MSDOS.DOS and IO.SYS.

This shows just how well Micro$oft designs there software, right. ;-)

Grendel
 

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