On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:46:53 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> petri.........I think I miss-stated my point.....what I wanted to
>> say was....we are in DOS...we don not need to worry about LFN....
>> UNLESS we run into a situation where some site/OS/application is
>> pushing them upon us, and insisting that we acknowledge them, then
>> we only have to take them and truncate them any way we choose...
>> LFNs should not be a major hindrance to our using DOS worldwide..
> *major laugh* that's what I think, too. If we really need LFNs, we might
> as well do a DGI module, that reads the LFNs so Arachne won't need to deal
> with them. LFNs sure are annoying under DOS....=P But anyhow, it doesn't
> even need to be integrated in Arachne, DGIs can be used for that.
petri .......yes....I think you have the right of it....Ref: Ron's
just previous post about "we engineers always trying to FIX
everything." In this case, your suggestion is the simplest
(maybe - but sometimes "the devil is in the details") so that
least needs to be modified...
gregy
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