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Subject: Re: gcc difficulties on MSDOS 6.22 with LFN driver installed
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On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero
<juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de> wrote:
> I still do not understand why DOSLFN 0.40e makes djgpp fail and why 0.40c does
> not.  There is certainly an pending issue in DOSLFN.  Neitherless according to
> DOSLFN documentation it does not support 0x71A6 at all.  filelength() should
> check if the 0x71XX functions are supported by checking the value of ax.
> This is done in other functions like _get_volume_info but has been forgotten
> here.

I wonder, though: Is something really gained by using 71a6 after
along with many checks, as opposed to conventional 4201 ?

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O.S.