From:	"dan" <hartcore AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Using djgpp on WINNT
Date:	Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:35:53 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...

>I'd guess you used an unzip program which supports long file names on
>NT (like WinZip, for instance).  DJGPP doesn't support long names on
>Windows NT because Microsoft in its infinite wisdom didn't include the
>long file name API in the NT DOS box.


Well, I'm on thin ice here, but are you sure that that is exactly why the
LFN's
don't work on NT?
I believe it has indeed something to do with M$'s infinite 'wisdom', and
that
is that LFN's under NT are different from LFN's under win95. They are
supposedly incompatible.
At least, LFN's in a DOS-box under NT are  quite possible, and work fine
on my NT system.
>
>So, to work with DJGPP on NT, you need to install DJGPP using an unzip
>program which does NOT support long names.  You still won't have the
>long file names' support, but at least DJGPP will work for you.

In this of course, you are right. It was just the above point I was trying
to make.
No intentions to comment on your advise, since that is precisely what
should be done.

Bye.

Dan.

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