Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:23:50 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: 8.3 name convention problem
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Chris Croughton wrote:

> Aha!  Er, no, not in this version.  Latest is 5.32, just fetched and
> compiled (with GCC 2.8.1) and it includes USE_VFAT automatically and
> works.

I'm glad the patches I sent to the maintainers made it to later 
versions ;-).

> I expected (naively, I suspect) that the ordinary DJGPP library longame
> support would work without doing anything except setting LFN=Y -
> presumably UnZip had its own truncation for MSDOS in earlier versions.

Yes, UnZip does its own conversion of names, since it wants to prevent 
you from overwriting files whose names clash in the 8+3 namespace.  So it 
needs to disable the internal truncation when LFN is supported.