Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:26:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>,
        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 Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>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.
I think Cesar meant that it would be great to have a comfort of thinking that
no 'Cannot exclusively open file ...' message will appear. I agree, DJTAR does
the job OK but still it's confined to 8.3 name on plain DOS.

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