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From:	"Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <paulsen AT ZAP DOT imailbox DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: LFN=N???
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Date:	Thu, 21 May 1998 01:35:28 GMT
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BrianR3572 wrote:
> 
> Can someone answer why in the ^*^)&%$^!* LFN is set to N by default??!?!!?
> That seems like the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

That had me going for a while, too! That and calling out the wrong file
name for some library file.  The answers are in the readme (somewhere),
but there is a *lot* of readme-like info with the package so it doesn't
jump out at you. 

Why is is set "wrong"? -- Some people are using DOS w/o Win95 or are
using NT which doesn't support long file names for DOS programs so the
LFN setting will be wrong for someone no matter which way it is set. (My
guess is that the people w/o LFN support are in the minority and perhaps
the shipped setting should be changed but I don't really know.)

Considering how complex and full-featured DJGPP and RHIDE are, the
overall installation went quite smoothly for me even with the above
minor difficulties. The "zip picker" worked great as well and helped a
lot. 

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