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From: "George Foot" <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
To: george AT oldbelt DOT com
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 03:23:18 +0000
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Subject: Re: help
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On  4 Oct 98 at 20:41, George Bason wrote:

> I am running djgpp under windows 95. How do I get djgpp to be able to
> find filenames longer than the 8 character limit of DOS?

Add to autoexec.bat: set LFN=y

Then reboot, and djgpp programs should be able to see long 
filenames.  Note that djgpp utilities like `gcc' are 
djgpp-compiled too -- this change affects all djgpp programs.

-- 
george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk

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