From: Ian Chapman <ichapman AT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: zip - DOS and long file names (LFN=n) - ENOENT
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 13:02:32 -0400
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D. H. Bahi wrote:
> 
> i'm kind of frustrated and this may be longer than need be.
> oh well. thanks for reading on anyway....
> 
> my question is - are pkunzip or unzip386 are the only
> decompression programs that may be used to explode
> the packages? and if so why. and if not what's my problem?
> 
> i ask because i used WinZip in windows - yes it was
> slow going package by package - but i didn't have
> unzip386, and now it is done.

IT'S A GOOD IDEA USING WINZIP AS IT KEEPS ALL  LONG FILE NAMES LFN PER
THE ORIGINAL DESIGN.

> so i am trying to do a little cout << "hello world"
> action and the compiler barfs with the message that
> it cannot find streambuf.h (no such file or directory
> ENOENT).

I'M IN THAT SITUATION WITH 2.8.1 AND MY SOLUTION IS TO USE 2.7.2 FOR THE
MOMENT (I'VE BOTH ON MY DISK).  I THOUGH I WAS MISSING A ZIP FILE.

THERE IS A DIRECTORY GNU/281/ UNDER DJGPP WHICH CONTAINS A FAQ.  THAT'S
THE MEXT PLACE TO LOOK.

snip snip snip

> i did was add the FILES=20 to my config.sys (which was empty). so there it is.
> i hope this helps someone and gets more FAQ attention in the future (what zippers
> do, when to use LFN, when it won't work, and how to get around it not working.)
I RUN IN A DOS 95WINDOW WITH THE DJGPP.ENV LFN=Y AND I UNZIPPED WITH
WINZIP.  I WAS NEVER CLEAR IF I SHOULD HAVE MY STARTDJ.BAT HOLD SET
LFN=Y OR LEAVE WELL ALONE.  That was with 2.7.2 though.

		Regards Ian.

> 
> thanks
> 
> d bahi