Mail Archives: djgpp/2021/03/20/14:21:09
> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 19:09:00 +0100
> From: Tomas By <tomas AT basun DOT net>
>
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:59:21 +0100, Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT gnu DOT org) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > How did you unzip the archives, exactly?
>
> Not sure, and it is hard to tell what happened since the Freedos "dir"
> command does not show long file names.
But if 'ls' shows long file names, it means unzip went well.
> (Now I realise that I have not run "mktexlsr" after the renaming, so I
> have to try that also.)
This is indeed necessary.
> > Sorry, I know nothing about FreeDOS.
>
> But are Latex packages with names longer than eigth chars (before the
> dot) actually known to work, in any DOS environment?
Yes, I'm quite sure of it. But you must ensure consistency: if the
files were unzipped with long file names, TeX must also run with long
file names enabled, and vice versa.
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