Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:51:59 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Ian Viemeister <vmeister AT ios DOT com>
Subject: Re: help: djgpp v2 C++ headers

At 08:58 AM 1/17/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Charles Sandmann wrote:
>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?
>

Yup - its not limited to 8.3. The new WinZip 6.0 for 95 supports unzipping 
LFNs, as do Info-Zip's programs (until Executor supported LFNs, i used the 
95 and Mac versions of Info-zip to move files with LFNs between the 95 
filesystem and Executor)
Ian
vmeister AT ios DOT com