Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:20:21 -0300
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To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: LFN
Cc: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>,
        Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT fb0432 DOT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 12:26 19/09/96 +0200, Mark Habersack wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>
>>On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:
>>
>>> when one downloads some nice package originally delopped w/u**x in mind,
>>> several filenames are longer than 8+3; to have means of doing that would
>>> easy the work on the port, given this support could be incorported in (at
>>> least) one port of some shell (e.g., bash), the decompressing utility (more
>>> often than not, gzip) and of course, make.
>>
>>If you use DJTAR to decompress the archive, it does most of the job for 
>>you automagically.  Check out its docs in the info/utils.inf Info file.
>I think Cesar meant that it would be great to have a comfort of thinking that
>no 'Cannot exclusively open file ...' message will appear. I agree, DJTAR does
>the job OK but still it's confined to 8.3 name on plain DOS.

Precisely! DJTAR does a superb job, but one still has to resolve problems
that arise from "name colisions" that appear when one starts a makefile!

>
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>So if you ask me how do I feel inside, I could honestly tell you we've
>been taken on a very long ride. And if my owners let me have free time
>some day, with all good intention I would probably run away!
>Clutching the short straw...
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