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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:45:44 -0400
From: "Rolf Campbell" <cp1v45 AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Having problems running gxx under dr-dos (lfn support problem)
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Jared Stevens wrote:

> I've got a computer running linux and I'm using DOSEMU to write and compile
> programs. I'm running DR-DOS 7 and when I compile stuff with GXX it has
> problems because some of the header file names don't corispond with the 8.3 file
> naming format and so it screws stuff up. Is there a way to fix this little
> problem? (Is there a way to make DJG++ work without needing long file names or
> would I have to try and fix DOS?)

    It should work fine if you never used Win95 for anything.  It should truncate
all of the filenames to 8.3, and things like streambuf.h would look like
streambu.h.  Check to see what the real file-name is, and post the error message
from gxx.

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     -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318