Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 08:26:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Graeme Pyle <graeme AT marques DOT co DOT za>
cc: DJGPP mailing list <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Windows LFN support
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On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Graeme Pyle wrote:

> i don't know if there is something i'm missing, or if this hasn't been
> addressed in djgpp (or if gcc -lfn -c main.cc would work... and i will slap
> myself if it does), but i thought i should point it out because it really
> drove me mad (i almost flamed dj delorie and robert hoene ;-P ):

You need to set LFN=y in the environment, in order to have gcc support
long filenames properly.  You can only do that in the DOS box under
Windows 95, though; when you boot in DOS mode, the LFN support is
unavailable and gcc will only see the 8+3 aliases that Windows 95 
creates.

> i really hope i haven't missed anything that fixes all of this, because
> then i've wasted a lot of time.

Sorry, you did miss something, see above.