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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 18:18:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: Aaron Judd <judda AT lethe DOT nosc DOT mil>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP installation problems
In-Reply-To: <19980502051013.AAD531@ppp122.cartsys.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980503181725.19706b-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Fri, 1 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Long file names are not supported on Windows NT, and the numeric tails
> affixed to the short aliases confuse the compiler. Unzip with a non-LFN
> unzipper, or I believe there is a Windows setting to disable numeric tails.
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AFAIK, there's no such option on Windows NT, only on Windows 9X.

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