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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:34:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Marc Singer <elf AT netcom DOT com>
Cc: DJGPP List Alias <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Source archive for make-3.75 and long names
In-Reply-To: <199610230432.VAA21788@netcom4.netcom.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961023093218.6813P-100000@is>
Mime-Version: 1.0

On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Marc Singer wrote:

> I have unpacked the make-3.75 in order to compile it for Win32 and I
> noticed that the long names have been slaughtered. It is this
> intended?  It makes it impossible to compile the packagefor the Win32
> target.    

DJ makes the archives on a platform that doesn't support long filenames.  
The original source distribution that I uploaded preserved long 
filenames.  If you want a source distribution that's LFN-clean, I can let 
you have it.

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