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Subject: Re: c++ with djgpp without long filenames
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:33:49 GMT
> > >
> > > Executing "dir std_st~?.h" in c:\djgpp\lang\cxx-v3\bits shows four
> > > different files.
> >
> > This looks like a problem with the unzipper you used.  It seems to
> > have chosen the stored "short" names in the zipfile instead of the
> > long names.
> 
> There are no short file names in the zip file, only the long ones.
> So the unzipper cannot take the short names from anywhere, it has to
> invent them.
> 
> Normally, an unzip program just creates the file using its long name
> recorded in the archive, and DOS truncates to the 8+3 limits.  If some
> unzip program (pkunzip?) generates the numeric tails even on plain
> DOS, it's a pest and should not be used.
> 
> That's why installation instructions recommend to use unzip32.exe from
> SimTel: it does The Right Thing on all supported systems.
> 
> > Or it may be a problem with the zipper used in creating the zipfile
> > in the first place?
> 
> No, no problems with the zipper.  We use InfoZip's Zip program, which
> never failed us as far as file names are concerned.

Yes, but we don't know where *his* zipfiles have been.  For
example, some idiot may have unzipped then under W9x, then
repacked them with a DOS only zipper, or even under the DOS mode. 
Where else could his names with '~n's in them have come from? 
Look at the dir command he said he used (still quoted up top).

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