Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:23:36 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Michael Stenns <STENNS AT www DOT tci DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: looking for zip and unzip source for djgpp v2
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On 18 Sep 1996, Michael Stenns wrote:

> >They both compile out of the box with DJGPP v2.  So why not getting the 
> >sources and building it?  It only takes about 15 minutes to build each 
> >one.
> 
> That is correct, but you get only 8.3 filename support while the
> port of Marc Singer on http://rfs63.Berkeley.EDU/users/elf/  works
> with long filenames under Win95.

Any program compiled with DJGPP v2 supports long filenames automatically.  
The latest versions of Unzip have a compile-time flag that enables that 
support (actually, it just disables filename conversions to 8+3 limits).  
So I still submit that if you compile the programs by yourself, you don't 
lose anything.