Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 08:58:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: help: djgpp v2 C++ headers


On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> > e:/djgpp-v2/lang/cxx/iostream.h:31: streambuf.h: No such file or directory 
> > For some unknown reason gcc isn't accepting any header files longer than
> > the 8.3 dos limitation, so iostream and streambuf and all the rest are not
> 
> Win 95.  LFN stuff.  "SET LFN=N" and see other messages in this group.  I
> rapidly see this as a W95 FAQ, eh?  No good deed goes unpunished ;-)
> Humm, maybe LFNs should be default off ...

Can't the distribution archives be built with the long filenames already 
in it?  That way, unzipping them on DOS will truncate the names, while 
Win95 users get long filenames.

Does the ZIP format even support long filenames?