From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: My NT installation wants '\' in the dir command Date: 11 Nov 2002 23:10:49 GMT Organization: Cornell University Lines: 30 Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT invalid (on pool-141-149-208-190.syr.east.verizon.net) Message-ID: References: <3DCC16AF DOT C3FEB582 AT lmco DOT nospam DOT com> <3DD00D18 DOT 4E4880F0 AT lmco DOT nospam DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-141-149-208-190.syr.east.verizon.net X-Trace: news01.cit.cornell.edu 1037056249 19213 141.149.208.190 (11 Nov 2002 23:10:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT news01 DOT cit DOT cornell DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Nov 2002 23:10:49 GMT User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com JMK wrote in news:3DD00D18.4E4880F0 @lmco.nospam.com: > It turns out that there is a long filename problem on NT (support was > just not included with NT!) which is addressed by the NTLFN08b.zip file > and made my compilation work. as i pointed out before, "... as per your other post, note that djgpp programs will not be able to see long file names under NT, see http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq3_3.html" also: "in addition, as I have asked before, what did you use to unzip the files? from readme1st: On Windows/NT (NT version 4 and below, not W2K!) use an unzip program which does NOT support long file names if you do not plan on using the LFN TSR, as DJGPP programs cannot access long file names on NT4 without the TSR. Again, unzip32.exe will do The Right Thing for you, so using it is recommended." Sinan. -- A. Sinan Unur asu1 AT c-o-r-n-e-l-l DOT edu Remove dashes for address Spam bait: mailto:uce AT ftc DOT gov