X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <3C373E91.5D21628F@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: c++ with djgpp without long filenames References: <2945-Sat05Jan2002145303+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 18:49:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.174.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1010256571 12.90.174.23 (Sat, 05 Jan 2002 18:49:31 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 18:49:31 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Dirk Groeneveld > > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp > > Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:15:13 +0100 > > > > I recently installed djgpp on a native-FreeDOS machine (no emulator or > > anything). Everything went fine. > > Everything but the C++ header files. Since most of the filenames are longer > > than 8.3, they got truncated and the compiler can't find them any more. > > The truncation is not the reason; I'm using the C++ compiler on a > plain DOS system where all file names are truncated, and don't have > any trouble. Things are set up to make it work; in particular, when a > compiler tries to open a file like "streambuf", the OS silently > truncates that name to "streambu", and the file with the truncated > name is found. > > So please don't assume the truncation is the reason. Instead, please > post here the exact command you used to compile you program and the > exact text of any error messages you saw, and someone will help you > resolve the problem. Your are, I believe, assuming that the W95x registry patch for truncated names was in effect when the file/directory etc. was created. Tain't necessarily so. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT XXXXworldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. (Remove "XXXX" from reply address. yahoo works unmodified) mailto:uce AT ftc DOT gov (for spambots to harvest)