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Hi,

I cannot see why that should not be possible, but I would have to do
the whole installation again.

Is it only the Emacs files or the whole DJGPP directory?

It was a while ago that I installed it.

/Tomas



On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:23:19 +0100, Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT gnu DOT org) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Running Emacs with LFN enabled requires that the files which are part
> of the Emacs distribution are stored on disk with long names.  Is that
> possible with DOSLFN and LFNDOS?  If not, you cannot have what you
> want, I think.
> 
> If one of these drivers does support long file names on disk, then you
> need to install Emacs (unpack the zip files) again with long file
> names turned on and with an unzip program that supports long file
> names.
> 
> Please be warned that long file names support in Emacs 19.34 was
> tested on Windows 9X, so it might not work well on plain DOS with LFN
> support from another kind of driver.