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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 14:39:04 +0000
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Subject: Re: lfn for dos
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> 
> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Mark E. wrote:
> 
> > And I found another URL that has a package that adds LFN to DOS:
> > http://members.xoom.com/dosuser/
> 
> Unfortunately, I suspect that all these LFN drivers aren't good enough for
> DJGPP, unless they support the entire LFN API, not only the functions that
> create, delete, read, and write files.  For example, what about the
> extended time stamps of the files, are they supported?

At least for the one at the URL above, you're probably right. I tried to use 
djtarx on a tar file and got complaints that function 7149 (I think) wasn't 
supported. The best way for a DOS LFN would be to build it right in, I don't 
know why Caldera's DOS doesn't do that instead of the TSR route that even 
they use.

Mark

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