From:	"Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Msnews@pineight.8m.com>
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Date:	Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:23:30 GMT
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> "Edward F. Sowell" wrote:
>
> > The lack of long file name support  for DJGPP continues to
> > bother me. Apparently, the efforts to fix it have not gotten
> > far. Tell me, what are the NT users of DJGPP doing
> > to work around this? Going to Cygnus?

Adding RSXNTDJ to their DJGPP installations.

"Damon Hogan" <damonh AT pgmincorporated DOT com> wrote:
> I compile some stuff on 98/95/NT and Linux of course.  I agree
> that the lack of long filenames is troublesome in that on one
> particular note you cannot name libraries the same so that every
> thing compiles the same i.e. portable code which I though was
> the intent of djgpp in the first place.

Then what do you call liballeg.a? 8.3 works on all
platforms that have GCC.
C:\HOME\YERRICDE\FOOFIGHT>gcc foo.c -lalleg -o foo.exe
[yerricde AT localhost foofight]$ gcc foo.c -lalleg -o xfoo

> As far as moving to CYGNUS.  I Have CYGWIN32
> but I am not happy about the runtime file requirements.
> So for me CYGNUS is not the answer.

Cygwin Free simply means you have to make your code
free software. You can sell copies of free software and
include bonuses like tech support, etc. Just look at
Red Hat Software. Its product (Red Hat(R) Linux(R)) is
free software, but Red Hat is making a lot of money off
it because it doesn't need to pay half of its developers.

If you *really* want to make proprietary, bug-riddled,
closed-source software, get GNUPro. It's just like
Cygwin except its libraries are under a different license.

Or put RSXNTDJ into your DJGPP.

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and now you must pay...
...nothing for RSXNTDJ.

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