Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/02/14/15:30:58
On 13 Feb 98 at 6:31, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> As for djgpp, they have a 16 bit version of bash, crippled with 8.3
> filenames. They say they support long file names with special
> environment variables but I've never gotten it to work.
>
Hi!
Without any intention of being picky, i'd like to say that DJGPP tools are not
16-bit programs; they're 32-bit, protected-mode DOS programs. That's possible
due to DPMI (DOS Protect Mode Interface. Or so i guess :-)
Concerning the use of long filenames, it is possible under Win95 due to the use
of Win95's LFN API, activated with the line
+LFN=y
in the file DJGPP.ENV, a configuration place for DJGPP software.
Concerning your BASH porting project, how are things going? I'd like to help
in something, if that's possible.
Regards,
++Hilton
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Hilton Fernandes
email: hgfernan AT usp DOT br
www: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~hilton.html (inactive)
M. Sc. Student of Parallel Distributed Applications
at Escola Politecnica (Polytechnic School)
University of S. Paulo - Brazil
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