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> From: vjp2 DOT at AT at DOT BioStrategist DOT dot DOT dot DOT com
> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:05:43 -0000 (UTC)
> 
> It seems when they moved the old MSDOS software to old-gnu
> in recent months they confused MSDOS vs WINDOWS software
> 
> on several occassions (emcas, PDFTEX) I got windows and non-8.3 versions
> represented as MSDOS

Long file names are not necessarily a sign that this is not MS-DOS
compatible.  The DJGPP build of Emacs, for example, can run on
Windows, and when it is, it supports long file names.  There are also
a couple of plain-DOS packages that allow long file names.