From: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
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Subject: Re: RHIDE and NT
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:23:21 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:07:38 -0400:

>>Rhide wasn't able to keep itself up more than a few seconds under NT 
>>when I tried, so should I go sticking with Win'95 when I want to use 
>>Rhide or is it possible to make Rhide and DJGPP work with NT?
>     
>     Rhide and djgpp will work ok under WINNT.  Look up in the archives the 
>     memo from 9.9.97 on how to setup NT 4 and RHIDE for configuring the 
>     DOS box for Rhide.
>     Make sure that you have not used WINZIP to unzip the djgpp files since 
>     it keeps long file names which djgpp can't handle.  Use Pkunzip and it 
>     will truncate all file names in the libraries to the 8.3 format.
>     
>     Also start Rhide with the -M switch.

Funny. I'm using long filenames and I don't have problems with this. Now with
the "-M" option also the mouse works. Is this long filename stuff something
that should happen always or just in special cases?

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