From: "A. Darrow" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Newbie frustration: headers not found Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:42:53 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: newsabuse AT supernews DOT com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote in message news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 991014103558 DOT 26124C-100000 AT is... > > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, A. Darrow wrote: > > > STREAM~1 H 17,057 09-24-99 12:17a > > Your long file names were wiped out somehow: the above file name (and > the rest of file names with those pesky ~1 numeric tails) clearly show > that. Here's what "dir stream*" says in my lang/cxx directory: > > Volume in drive C is SYSTEM > Volume Serial Number is 3B3A-12D0 > Directory of C:\bin\gcc\lang\CXX > > stream h 1,925 12-26-95 8:07p STREAM.H > streambu h 17,020 01-24-96 2:11a streambuf.h > 2 file(s) 18,945 bytes > 0 dir(s) 692,125,696 bytes free > > Note the short 8+3 names on the left and long versions on the right. > In your case, there are no long names. However, the numeric tails > suggest that there *were* long file names, they just got nuked. > > Did you copy this directory from another place using some DOS program > that doesn't support long file names? Or maybe you edited the > directory with some disk-editing tool that doesn't support Windows 9X > style long file names? In any of these cases, Windows detects that > the long file names and their short 8+3 aliases don't match, and nukes > all the long names, leaving you with the short names only. > > The easiest solution for you is to remove the entire DJGPP > installation (not only the lang/cxx directory), and then unzip it > again with a program that supports long file names. I suggest to use > unzip32.exe that is available from the DJGPP sites. I beg to differ, the LFN's are still there according to Diskedit they just don't show up in the DIR command listing. Did you alter your dir command through programming or a different DOS command interpreter? I tried unzip32 with the result that there were no LFN entries at all, not even those pesky numeric tails. All entries longer than the standard 8+3 were all truncated. e.g. streambuf.h became streambu.h in both Win95 and the DOS box. Oh this is just so much fun!!