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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 01:09:28 +0100
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Subject: Re: emacs,info,packed .inf files
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Once upon a time (on 21 Jan 97 at 9:51) Eli Zaretskii said:

> I think that if you call the compressed files as they would be called on
> Unix (like gcc.i1.gz), it should work.  If it isn't, then the problem is
But this will cause the DOS part to fail! On DOS the name will be 'gcc.i1g' 
(with no number tags). 

> that the DJGPP port of gzip deliberately breaks the LFN support (by forcing
> the file extension to be 3 characters at most, even when LFN is available). 
> I think a patch to gzip was posted to the news group, you should be able to
> get it through mail archives search at DJ Delorie's server.
Thanks, I will look for it.