From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: djtar Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 20:47:37 +0000 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 31 Message-ID: <33C155E9.7C66@cs.com> References: Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp101.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Jon Berry wrote: > > DJTAR (I got djgpp v2) doesn't seem to support long filenames by > default. It does have some command-line options, but I wasn't > able to find the DJTAR command in info. Are long filenames > supported by one of these options? If not, does anybody have a > free tar utility that supports long filenames? I have spent some > time at the "TAR/GZIP" home page, but the free Windows95 utilities > I saw there either didn't work or weren't in the advertised locations. > thanks, Type "SET LFN=Y" from your DOS command line, or place that command in your autoexec.bat. This enables LFN support in DJGPP programs when running under Win95 or from a Win95 DOS shell. To make the setting permanent, edit the line in 'djgpp.env' that reads: +LFN=N to say: +LFN=Y If no LFN variable is present, DJGPP programs will assume "LFN=Y". -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "A woman is not property, and hus- | | aka Fighteer I | bands who think otherwise are living | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | in a dreamworld." | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------