> From: Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> > Cc: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com>, emacs-de...@gnu.org, > egg...@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monn...@iro.umontreal.ca > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:02:47 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> > >> 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.
