Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/03/21/10:45:48
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Pradip Jadav wrote:
> ok
> The problem is resolved..
> Actually I was copying folder from one hard-drive to another in DOS
> mode.so what happened .....all filenames and foldernames more than 6
> characters were renamed.. e.g. libgpg-error folder was renamed to
> LIBGPG~1 and libgpg-error-1.0-2.tar.bz2 file renamed to
> LIBGPG~1.BZ2.
> hence the setup was not detecting all packages...
> Now if u dont mind I just want ask whether this problem can be
> fixed??? I mean if files and folders are renamed by DOS system itself
> , then our setup.exe should detect them also ??? Sorry if its silly
> question....
Not as much silly as misguided. The mapping from long filenames to short
filenames happens at the Windows level -- there is no way for a program to
predict what short name a particular long name will map to. Thus, there
is no way to track the short names back to the long names, sorry.
One wild idea: you could try matching the MD5 sums of the bz2 files to the
contents of setup.ini... Given that the short names do share the first 6
characters with the long names, this shouldn't be too time-consuming.
But, as Larry said already, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>, and it
probably won't be anyone but you.
Igor
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