From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: gzip and long filenames.. Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:07:16 -0800 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32FFE264.5D7F@cs.com> References: Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp204.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Andy Eskilsson wrote: > > Doing gzip on a file "longfilename.longext", resulted in > "longfilename.longegz" and unpacking it I got a file > "longfilename.longe". Did you make sure to pass gzip the '-N' option both when compressing and decompressing? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Plan: To find ANYONE willing to | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | play Descent 2 on DWANGO! | Tagline: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------