Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:43:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: SV: DJGPP and NT 4.0???
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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Martin Fraser wrote:

> I have NT on my home system and had the same problem.  To make
> everything work I simply wrote my first DJGPP program to find all files
> that weren't 8.3, i.e. first section longer than 8, or last section
> longer than 3, or multiple sections.  I repaired them manually since I
> couldn't think of an easy way to fix them programmatically.  You need to
> fix <iostreams.h> first to <iostream.h> and then you can write a program
> to fix the rest.  It took me about 10 minutes with explorer to fix them;
> the directory lang\cxx and its subdirectories were the worst.

It is IMHO much simpler and less error-prone to remove the entire DJGPP 
tree and install it again using a DOS unzip program.

> If you want, I can post the program, but it's pretty simple and kind of
> a fun way to start.  You simply work your way through the tree of
> subdirectories below \djgpp (make this a parameter of your program) and
> print out any filename (or subdirectory name) with a tilda, i.e. the
> character '~', in it.

Note that this is not general enough.  Windows can be set up to create 
8+3 aliases without the numeric tails, in which case there will be no ~ 
characters.