From:	bignose AT nemesis DOT DEATH DOT TO DOT SPAMMERS DOT com DOT au (The Nose Who Knows)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Using djgpp on WINNT
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Organization:	Civil Rights for Purple Things!
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Date:	13 Apr 98 13:50:30 GMT
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>> Surely this problem isn't insoluble.  I haven't investigated it, but I
>> know that at the least, Info-ZIP supports LFNs under NT without any
>> trouble; I assume it would be using freely distributable code.
>I think you misunderstand the nature of the problem.  InfoZip supports
>long names on NT *only* in the version compiled as a Win32 application
>using a commercial compiler and proprietary libraries.

Ah - there lies my misapprehension.  I thought that Info-ZIP was all
freely distributable code; using a commercial library gives the lie to
that.  So much for a quick fix for DJGPP, then.

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