From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: long filenames for dos? unix<-.>pc
Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:09:03 +0000
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Steve no underscores wrote:
> 
> I'm writing a program on my old home dos machine
> and the college unix boxes. But my long filenames
> get chopped when I transfer back & forth.
> 
> Of course I'll install bsd/linux when I get a new
> machine but until then is there a TSR which will
> pretend that files have long names?

All you need is a file transfer utility that recognizes and handles long
filenames.  Unix 'zip' will store files with the correct filenames; you
should find a PC-compatible zip/unzip program that handles them
correctly.  I believe that the latest version of WinZip for Windows 95
will do this.

If you are limited to a DOS environment, then you have limited choices. 
The Info-Zip people have written a zip utility that can handle being fed
long filenames on the DOS end, even if they are not available in the
environment.  Also, if you would like to invest the download time, all
DJGPP-compiled programs can handle the long filename API when run under
Windows 95 (simply set LFN=Y in the environment).  In fact, the Info-Zip
sources can be built under DJGPP with minor modifications (search the
mailing list archives for a post by Eli Zaretskii on this subject).

hth

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