From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: beginner
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 14:03:00 -0400
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Jordan Phang wrote:
> 
> hello,
> I am a beginner to djgpp and i have a problem using it.
> It's because of the long file names of the header files. Windows 95
> truncates them to something~1.h and that causes djgpp to not be able to
> find it. When i follow the instructions in the faq i got short file
> names e.g- streambuf.h = streambu.h but that didn't solve the problem.
> It gave me a wierd error again. how can i solve this problem?

SET LFN=Y from the DOS prompt or in your autoexec.bat.  For a completely
clean installation, see chapter 8.2 of the DJGPP Frequently Asked
Questions list (v2/faq210b.zip or online at
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/).

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