Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/27/20:17:06
On 28 Sep 98 at 1:37, Q wrote:
> I'm just starting to use djgpp, and have a problem.
>
> If I don't set djgpp to the correct value, most things work normal,
> except that he can't find some files.
Don't continue to use djgpp with its environment variable
incorrectly set, it's asking for trouble.
> When I set it to the correct value, suddenly bash doesn't uses the long
> filenames anymore, but the old dos filenames.
>
> Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong?
It's normal, because djgpp.env disables long filnename support.
At the time the developers weren't sure whether or not it was
stable enough. Now that we know that it is, set LFN=y in your
autoexec.bat and you'll get the long filenames back.
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george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk
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