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> From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:25:17 +0100
> 
> Most of these FAQs probably stem from #include <iostream>, which has
> streambuf.h nested in it.

This is only one of the problems.  Take a look at lang/cxx and
lang/cxx/std: there are a lot of files there whose names exceed the
DOS 8+3 limits.

> How about making a copy of streambuf.h with
> an 8.3 filename and editing the nested include within iostream.h?

You suggest a manual solution.  This is error prone (what if someone
who ports GCC forgets to do that?), and it doesn't solve the case when
a new header is introduced with a new release of GCC that wasn't known
before.

> This could reduce the FAQs even though it does not actually fix the
> problem.  And if you catch the GNU maintainers in the right mood, who
> knows... ;-)

We have been unable to catch the GCC maintainers ``in the right mood''
to solve even simpler and more annoying problems.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions.