Message-ID: <356384BF.7A41FDA1@imailbox.com> From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." Organization: . MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: LFN=N??? References: <1998052100495300 DOT UAA03097 AT ladder01 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 01:35:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.99.42.230 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 20:35:28 CDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk BrianR3572 wrote: > > Can someone answer why in the ^*^)&%$^!* LFN is set to N by default??!?!!? > That seems like the dumbest thing I've ever seen. That had me going for a while, too! That and calling out the wrong file name for some library file. The answers are in the readme (somewhere), but there is a *lot* of readme-like info with the package so it doesn't jump out at you. Why is is set "wrong"? -- Some people are using DOS w/o Win95 or are using NT which doesn't support long file names for DOS programs so the LFN setting will be wrong for someone no matter which way it is set. (My guess is that the people w/o LFN support are in the minority and perhaps the shipped setting should be changed but I don't really know.) Considering how complex and full-featured DJGPP and RHIDE are, the overall installation went quite smoothly for me even with the above minor difficulties. The "zip picker" worked great as well and helped a lot. -- Robert Paulsen ICQ 11815732 http://paulsen.home.texas.net If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.