From: Vik Heyndrickx Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Possibly make problem Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:37:22 +0200 Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium Lines: 23 Message-ID: <34506C52.54B0@rug.ac.be> References: <62mt6f$rsb$c AT 195 DOT 26 DOT 68 DOT 21> NNTP-Posting-Host: eduserv1.rug.ac.be 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 Precedence: bulk Michal Mertl wrote: > > I also have problems with lfns; I have read Eli wrote that DJGPP 2.02 will > have lfn=y as default setting, but wan't it cause problems when it runs > on plain dos? No. On genuine SFN systems LFN=y yields no problems. On LFN systems LFN=y is a good idea because most LFN problems arise because LFN was set default to N. Most W95 users don't descend often to plain DOS. And being set default to Y means that it can be overriden! > I get to this problem because to be able to try libsocket I had to enable > lfns. If I set lfn=y I can't use info because I have my info files > gzipped. It seems to me that gzip (from djgpp archives) never use lfns, am > I correct, it always creates files with only one dot in name? I don't really know, but since gzip is a djgpp port (or isn't yours?) I don't think it will truncate names with LFN set to on. -- +----------------+ | Vik Heyndrickx | +----------------+