From: Robert Neinast Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Installed gVim 6.1; filenames screwed up Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50 Lines: 64 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:23:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.87.146.219 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1035462225 12.87.146.219 (Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:23:45 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:23:45 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article , eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il says... > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Robert Neinast wrote: > > > I just installed gVim 6.1 after having used gVim 5.7 for a long > > time. > > > > Before that, my bash window handled long file names just fine. > > Now they are all screwed up (showing the 8-char versions). > > I'm figuring gVim must have repointed some important file > > or something. > > Is it possible that the gVim installation sets LFN=n in the environment? > That setting disables long file name support in DJGPP programs. Nope. LFN=y. > If this doesn't help, please tell the details: what OS is that, what are > your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, and what does "env" print in the Bash > window. It's Windows 98. From an "ls -l" autoexec.bat was last changed Oct 12, and config.sys Mar 21. To answer Sinan's questions: I downloaded from . First I grabbed the self-installing executable, gvim61.exe, and ran it, thus installing gvim. I next grabbed the 32 bit DOS executable, vim61d32.zip, and in a totally separate area, unzipped it. Within the unzipped area was vim.exe, which I moved into the vim area, /vim/vim61. I then added /vim/vim61 to my /etc/profile PATH. At that point I noticed that my new bash window was screwed up. ============================================================ Hold the phone, in writing the above I figured out the problem. Many thanks for sending me down the right path (actually PATH) to find the problem. Now, don't laugh . . . It turns out that I also have an old MKS-unix installed on my system. In changing my /etc/profile PATH, I managed to put /bin/ls ahead of /djgpp/bin/ls, and of course the old MKS knows nothing about long file names. Again, thanks for the help. Let me also take this opportunity to thank all those involved in creating/maintaining DJGPP. As an old Unix guy (from the early '80s) forced into the PC environment by retiring from Lucent Technologies, it's a real life-saver for me. Thanks to all, Bob -- . . . and shun the Frumious Bandersnatch Robert A. Neinast Pickerington, OH