Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:37:47 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Message-Id: <199709050837.LAA20221@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Rebuilding gcc - "c-parse.gperf" not found
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
In-Reply-To: <199709031238.IAA00648@delorie.com>
Organization: University of Helsinki
Precedence: bulk

On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 12:38:46 GMT, in <199709031238 DOT IAA00648 AT delorie DOT com>,
DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> I *do* have Win95.  I just don't like using it.  Given a choice, I'd
> rather cross-compile the packages from unix, which also supports long
> file names but does it *right*.

How about writing a LFN API server for DOS? Of course, that wouldn't solve
*all* problems, but it would be nice anyway, especially if it required even
the long names to be 8+3 clean, which would make porting easier.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/