Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:51:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Norman D. Megill" <ndm AT shore DOT net>
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Subject: Re: djgpp loses characters when pasting to DOS
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On 21 Jan 1999, Norman D. Megill wrote:

> conflicts with djgpp .exe's and other .exe's (including
> upper-case/lower-case conflicts e.g. as.exe and AS.EXE - who knows what
> Windows does with that)

Windows doesn't care whether it's AS.EXE or as.exe or aS.eXe--all file 
operations are case insensitive.

> Too bad all tex
> .exe's couldn't be named texyyy.exe, djgpp djzzz.exe, etc., simple and
> clean.

You could come close by using as many DJGPP ports as possible.  LaTeX, 
for example, is ported to DJGPP.