Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/08/07:54:32
In article <3342F175 DOT 7BDB AT geocities DOT com>, JustIn wrote:
>
>It must have been the other distribution I had. I reinstalled
>'lib3d018.zip' instead of the same version in a long '.tar.gz' format.
>Strange.
The file names had probably been 'dosified' in the .zip file.
ie your Debuggable.s in the .tar.gz file had probably become DEBUGABL.S on
your MS-DOS platform (some older programs do ignore VFat).
A good tip, if using Win95, is to use a good unarchiving program like WinZip
on a VFat partition, the long file name problem (usually) disappears.
Another possible cause is the Makefile being in Unix text file format in the
.tar.gz archive. That can cause considerable problems with MS-DOS make
utilities. However, I suspect that the Makefile would fail completely in
that circumstance (usually with "Missing separator: stop." or something
equally informative. :)
--
Gary
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