Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/11/04/15:53:19
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, RW Scovell wrote:
> I just recently downloaded DJGPP from www.delorie.com; it looks
> great but I am having compatibility problems with MS-DOS6. The problem
> is that the STL and various files which come with DJGPP are long
> filenames (e.g. longer than ********.***).
This should not present any problems at all. When you unzip the packages
on MS-DOS, DOS automatically truncates the long names to 8+3 limits.
When the compiler then wants to find, say, streambuf.h, it will happily
find streambu.h, because DOS truncates the long name issued by the
compiler.
So you shouldn't have any problems whatsoever--unless you unzipped the
packages under Windows 9X, and then want to use them in plain DOS mode,
for some reason. This is not what most people do; usually they unzip and
use the package in the same environment. However, if for some reason you
do need that, read section 22.18 of the DJGPP FAQ list.
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