From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs Subject: Re: Files from gnulib Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:52:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oc75t4tn.fsf@meyering.net> <201101252337.15312.roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> <83hbcwxr2l.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjwgorl4.fsf@meyering.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296046360 16912 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 12:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: roucaries.bastien@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jim Meyering Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 13:52:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi4rS-0000rG-R1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:52:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pi4rS-0005rt-7q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:52:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45003 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pi4rM-0005rc-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:52:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi4rK-0003iV-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:52:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi4rK-0003iI-6V; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi4rE-0005s3-C0; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:52:20 -0500 In-reply-to: <87sjwgorl4.fsf@meyering.net> (message from Jim Meyering on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:02:47 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:135002 gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:24962 Archived-At: > From: Jim Meyering > Cc: Bastien ROUCARIES , emacs-devel@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:02:47 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Bastien ROUCARIES > >> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:37:08 +0100 > >> > >> (if and only if doslfn is buggy, and it does not seems according to > >> a quick search). > > > > Your search was too quick. > > Considering your wish to continue supporting emacs on DOS, > I would have thought you would jump at a possible solution like this. The solution would need to be rock solid, for me to jump at it. DJGPP is very stable on plain DOS, and its users expect stability. > http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/what_lfn.htm.en > > Please give it an honest try before dismissing it. It obviously has problems with protected-mode programs and environments, and with DOS extenders. DJGPP programs switch the machine to 32-bit protected mode, so any programs that have difficulties with that environment are not promising. And the fact that DJGPP is not mentioned as a solution for DOS programs that support LFN does not help to remove the cloud.