From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Trouble with LFN
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 23:14:47 -0400
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lheller AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:
> 
> When LFN=y, emacs will not start, it appears to try then exits.  Nor can I
> build sharutils-4.2, attempting to run configure results in:
> bash: (null): Invalid argument (EINVAL)
> [exited with 126]
> 
> When set LFN=n, emacs runs as expected and configure at least starts
> to run (the are other problems there though).
> 
> I added NameNumericTail 00 to the registry then completely reinstalled
> djgpp with the same results.  What am I missing here.

When you reinstalled DJGPP, did you do it with an unzip program that
understands long filenames, such as WinZip, the new Win32 pkunzip, or
InfoZIP compiled for DJGPP?  If you used a non-LFN unzipper, then it
doesn't matter what your registry's NameNumericTail is set to.

Look in your emacs/lisp directory for filenames such as
'case-table.el'.  Do a normal DIR listing from a Win95 DOS shell. 
You'll see one of three listings (this is from Emacs 20.2 so file size
and datestamp might not be identical to yours):

CASE-TAB EL          4,681  08-09-97  8:09a CASE-TAB.EL

If you see this, you didn't unzip with long filenames.

CASE-T~1 EL          4,681  08-09-97  8:09a case-table.el

If you see this, then the NameNumericTail fix didn't work.  Make sure
you spelled it right _and_ put it in the proper location in the registry
as instructed by FAQ chapter 8.2.

CASE-TAB EL          4,681  08-09-97  8:09a case-table.el

If you see this, then everything is as it should be and you ought to be
able to run Emacs normally, with LFN=N or LFN=Y.

hth!

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