Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:24:24 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: anarko <anarko AT flashback DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: can djgpp handle long filenames when running under win9x?
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, anarko wrote:

> because the code is orginally written for a linux
> workstation, long filenames is commonly used and
> djgpp don't seem to be able to handle long filenames,
> so i've changed all code (took me about 3 hours, yuck).
> but, so maybe i won't need to do the same work later
> in some other circumstances, can djgpp handle long filenames?

DJGPP supports long file names automatically on Windows 9X.  So you
should never need to do such renaming, unless you want the sources to
compile on plain DOS or on Windows NT (where long file names are NOT
supported).

Even on plain DOS, you do NOT need to rename long file names, unless
either (1) some of them clash when truncated to DOS 8+3 limits, or 
(2) some of them are not allowed on DOS, like .foo or foo.bar.baz.  In
any case, you only need to rename those file names which violate one
of these two requirements; you can leave alone all of the rest.