Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Compile probs.... --ACK!! Long file name probl & win 95!!!
From: arromdee AT www DOT inetnow DOT net (Ken Arromdee)
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>>3) "SET LFN=Y" in your environment.  Either add that line to your
>>'autoexec.bat' or edit the line "+LFN=n" in 'djgpp.env' to read
>>"+LFN=y".  You will still not be able to run from plain DOS if you do
>>this.

I may as well ask, is there any reason why DJGPP can't (in theory) include
its own long filename support in plain DOS?  The filenames are on the disk,
after all, and their format is publically known.
--
Ken Arromdee                    |They said it was *daft* to build a space
arromdee AT inetnow DOT net            |station in a swamp, but I showed them!  It
karromde AT nyx DOT nyx DOT net            |sank into the swamp.  So I built a second
http://www.inetnow.net/~arromdee|space station.  That sank into the swamp too.
--------------------------------+My third space station sank into the swamp.
So I built a fourth one.  That fell into a time warp and _then_ sank into the
swamp.  But the fifth one...  stayed up! --Monty Python/Babylon 5