From: Outsider <nonvalid_email AT yahoo DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Sorry (was:Re: Why the deception?)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:27:03 +0200
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Below are the file lists I got from the zip picker page for
> > MS-DOS. They are filled with illegal file names, to wit:
> >
> > bin/addr2line.exe
> > info/binutils.info
> > info/gasp.info
> > info/gprof.info
> > bin/unprotoize.exe
> > lang/cxx/algorithm
> > lang/cxx/builtinbuf
> > lang/cxx/indstream
> > lang/cxx/stlhashmap
> 
> None of these are illegal on DOS.  DOS will gladly create files when
> asked to using these names, and quietly chop off the characters it
> won't support.  Nothing wrong with that; it's intentional.  DJGPP zip
> files offer the full name for DOS machines supporting the long file
> name standard (like, DOS with LFNDOS installed), so that *if* the full
> name can be preserved, it will be, else programs ported from Unix will
> be confused.
> 

Again my apologies.
I had a previous episode where I donwloaded files that claimed to be for
DOS and when I unzipped them, they messed up my drive by creating a lot of
files and directories that DOS could not access and I had to format the
drive to get rid of them.

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