Date:	Fri, 19 May 2000 08:30:58 -0400 (EDT)
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From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To:	Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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	from Prashant TR on Fri, 19 May 2000 06:23:36 +0530 (IST))
Subject:	Re: Newbie Problem
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> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 06:23:36 +0530 (IST)
> From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Ghostwheel wrote:
> 
> > I am, in fact, using WinNT.  I used WinZip to unzip the files.
> 
> This is the problem. WinNT does not support LFN in a DOS box. So you have
> to use PKZIP.

Actually, unzip32.exe (available from the same place you download
DJGPP) is a much better choice: there are versions of PKZIP that
support long file names on Windows NT.  In contrast, unzip32 will
always do the right thing.

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