From: "Deathray0" <webmaster AT romworld DOT findhere DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie frustration: headers not found
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:25:09 -0400
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Check here in the DJGPP FAQ:
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq189.html
This will tell you instructions on how to install djgpp on win95 and be able
to get the 8+3 names without the numeric tails.  You will also get the
LFN's.

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Deathray0
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A. Darrow <msmsh AT freewwweb DOT com> wrote in message
news:s0buirjhu270 AT corp DOT supernews DOT com...
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> 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!!
>
>