Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/02/12:05:01
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, David May wrote:
> > I lost the original message asking help about changing directory into
> > the c:\Program Files directory under Windows 95 under bash. The
> > only way I could get it to work is to use
> > cd /Progra~1.
> > Then pwd returns
> > /Progra~1
> > as the current working directory.
>
> Sorry I didn't make this clear, but I wrote this AFTER I tried all
> your suggestions.
Did you care to set LFN=y in the environment before invoking `bash'? The
DJGPP.ENV file comes with LFN disabled by default, so if you didn't edit
it and didn't set LFN=y from the DOS prompt, `bash' (and any other DJGPP
program) won't support long filenames at all.
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