Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:07:08 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DeHackEd <Not DOT given AT out>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GXX Problems
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On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, DeHackEd wrote:

> If you unzipped using PKUNZIP, set it to N. PKUNZIP will stop the filename and
> the last x gets ignored. Setting it to N will make GCC act the same way pkunzip
> does.
> 
> unzip386 MAY do the same thing if you used that, but I'm not sure.

unzip386 was compiled with an old version of DJGPP which didn't support 
long file names at all.  So it always behaves as a DOS program which 
cannot use long names.