Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 14:33:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Groff for DJGPP with long filenames?
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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> > I was wondering if there is a port of groff for DJGPP that support long
> > filenames under Win95? I tried the version of groff that I found at
> > ftp.sunet.se (v1.10), and it didn't work with long filenames.
> 
> Are you sure you have set up your DJGPP environment to use long
> filenames?  If not, try typing "set LFN=Y" from the DOS prompt before
> using groff.  I just read through the README for the DJGPP port of groff
> (v2gnu/gro110b.zip) and it mentions nothing about groff and long
> filenames...

There's one known problem with Groff on Windows 95: you need to rename
the file %DJDIR%/share/groff/tmac/man.loc to man.local.  After that,
Groff should work without any problems on LFN platforms; it does for
me.