From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: gzip and long filenames..
Date:	Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:07:16 -0800
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Andy Eskilsson wrote:
> 
> Doing gzip on a file "longfilename.longext", resulted in
> "longfilename.longegz" and unpacking it I got a file
> "longfilename.longe".

Did you make sure to pass gzip the '-N' option both when compressing and
decompressing?

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