Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 08:41:22 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Cc: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl,
        Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT fb0432 DOT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: LFN
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

> when one downloads some nice package originally delopped w/u**x in mind,
> several filenames are longer than 8+3; to have means of doing that would
> easy the work on the port, given this support could be incorported in (at
> least) one port of some shell (e.g., bash), the decompressing utility (more
> often than not, gzip) and of course, make.

If you use DJTAR to decompress the archive, it does most of the job for 
you automagically.  Check out its docs in the info/utils.inf Info file.