Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 13:12:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "WALLACE.E.L-" <WALLACE DOT E DOT L- AT postal DOT essd DOT northgrum DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Using djgpp on WINNT
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, WALLACE.E.L- wrote:

>      I've just gotten back to djgpp after a few months and downloaded V2.80 
>      of C++ for my new NT PC.  The problem is long file names for libs, 
>      include files, etc.  They don't seem to work in a DOS box on NT.  I 
>      reloaded everything from the file picker using DOS as my OS selection 
>      and got the same long filenames.  I'm sure this is something easy to 
>      fix but I can't find anything on the archives.  Any idesa would be 
>      appreciated.

I'd guess you used an unzip program which supports long file names on
NT (like WinZip, for instance).  DJGPP doesn't support long names on
Windows NT because Microsoft in its infinite wisdom didn't include the
long file name API in the NT DOS box.

So, to work with DJGPP on NT, you need to install DJGPP using an unzip
program which does NOT support long names.  You still won't have the
long file names' support, but at least DJGPP will work for you.