From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 8.3 name convention problem
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:23:25 +0200
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Nate Eldredge wrote:

> I believe this is addressed in the FAQ.  There should be no
> circumstances under which you have to change the file names in the
> headers.  I suggest you reinstall the originals.  For the problem:
> 
> If you set LFN=Y in your environment, all DJGPP programs will
> automagically support long file names.   This, IMHO, is the best
> solution.

It seems that InfoZip also doesn't know about long names - even setting
LFN=Y under Win95 gets the names created with the right case (as if that
mattered!) but still truncates to 8.3 ("ChangeLog.texi" in the zip file
- as reported by unzip -v - ends up as "ChangeLo.tex").  Is there
something which has to be set when compiling as well as when running?

Chris C