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From: Martin Fraser <frasers AT interlog DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SV: DJGPP and NT 4.0???
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:07:40 -0400
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 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.

Agreed <grin>.  But the unzip386.exe that was posted on ftp.simtel.net didn't
work on my machine - it just crashed, not sure if it was an NT problem.
Writing a program was preferable to searching for a working unzip.

>
>
> > 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.

I didn't know that.  I know this isn't a Windows forum, but you've piqued my
curiosity.  What is the setting that removes '~'?   Thanks, Martin