Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/02/25/10:28:26
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, John M. Aldrich wrote:
> Nate Eldredge wrote:
> >
> > Correction: I believe you can install DJGPP into a long-named directory. The
> > only trouble is that you have to use its short alias in the DJGPP
> > environment variable, because of the aforementioned chicken-and-egg problem.
>
> Wouldn't it also be possible to deactivate numeric tails in the registry
> before you create the directory with the long name, thus making the long
> and short names functionally identical?
The underlying problem is actually a very subtle bug in the DJGPP
startup code (which v2.02 should solve). It only hits people who
don't set LFN=y, and then only those who have LFN=n inside DJGPP.ENV
(as opposed to an actual environment variable).
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