From: "Deathray0" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Newbie frustration: headers not found Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:25:09 -0400 Organization: Cumberland Technologies International Lines: 66 Message-ID: <7u63cg$aio$1@news.pa.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: duppp38.mllr3.perry.pa.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Check here in the DJGPP FAQ: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq189.html This will tell you instructions on how to install djgpp on win95 and be able to get the 8+3 names without the numeric tails. You will also get the LFN's. -- ----- Deathray0 webmaster AT romworld DOT findhere DOT com A. Darrow wrote in message news:s0buirjhu270 AT corp DOT supernews DOT com... > > Eli Zaretskii wrote in message > news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 991014103558 DOT 26124C-100000 AT is... > > > > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, A. Darrow wrote: > > > > > STREAM~1 H 17,057 09-24-99 12:17a > > > > Your long file names were wiped out somehow: the above file name (and > > the rest of file names with those pesky ~1 numeric tails) clearly show > > that. Here's what "dir stream*" says in my lang/cxx directory: > > > > Volume in drive C is SYSTEM > > Volume Serial Number is 3B3A-12D0 > > Directory of C:\bin\gcc\lang\CXX > > > > stream h 1,925 12-26-95 8:07p STREAM.H > > streambu h 17,020 01-24-96 2:11a streambuf.h > > 2 file(s) 18,945 bytes > > 0 dir(s) 692,125,696 bytes free > > > > Note the short 8+3 names on the left and long versions on the right. > > In your case, there are no long names. However, the numeric tails > > suggest that there *were* long file names, they just got nuked. > > > > Did you copy this directory from another place using some DOS program > > that doesn't support long file names? Or maybe you edited the > > directory with some disk-editing tool that doesn't support Windows 9X > > style long file names? In any of these cases, Windows detects that > > the long file names and their short 8+3 aliases don't match, and nukes > > all the long names, leaving you with the short names only. > > > > The easiest solution for you is to remove the entire DJGPP > > installation (not only the lang/cxx directory), and then unzip it > > again with a program that supports long file names. I suggest to use > > unzip32.exe that is available from the DJGPP sites. > > I beg to differ, the LFN's are still there according to > Diskedit they just don't show up in the DIR command > listing. Did you alter your dir command through > programming or a different DOS command interpreter? > > I tried unzip32 with the result that there were no LFN > entries at all, not even those pesky numeric tails. All > entries longer than the standard 8+3 were all truncated. > > e.g. streambuf.h became streambu.h in both Win95 and > the DOS box. > > Oh this is just so much fun!! > >