Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 19:25:21 +0200
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> From: "Mark Lewis" <mlewis AT ecr DOT net>
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:10:08 -0400
> 
> I am in the process of porting a freeBSD program to Windows/NT. One =
> problem that I am running into is in my Makefile and compiling the =
> source is that filenames with eight or more characters are not being =
> found. I know this a UNIX to DOS file name issue, is there anyother =
> solution than changing all the file names and references to them within =
> the source code?

The solution is to use a DJGPP (or another DOS) program when unpacking
the FreeBSD distribuition.  Then the long file names will be truncated
to 8+3 limits, and all the DJGPP tools will be happy.  The only
problem you might need to deal with (by renaming files) is if any of
the original names map to the same name after truncation.  But these
clashes are usually only a few, if any.

DJTAR, a program supplied with djdev203.zip, is one program which can
unpack a variety of formats, including .zip, .tar, and .tar.gz.