From:	Danny Halamish <dny AT CS DOT HUJI DOT AC DOT IL>
Subject:	Re: Porting GCC 2.3.3
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Thu, 4 Feb 93 0:01:59 JST

Well, I'm no expert on the matter, but if the problem is that:
1. unix file names are longer, and
2. unix file names may include more characters,
then one simple solution is to use 4DOS, give the filename a random uniqe name,
and use 4DOS's description field (up to 40 characters, any character you like)
for the real filename. This way you don't need a special convertion table and
you can see the true filenames in a normal DIR. The drawbacks are ofcourse
that this would be incopatible with non-4DOS systems (their tough luck if you
ask me) and with DOS programs that do not support 4DOS desriptions (this is 
the REAL drawback, I think).

-Danny

dny AT cs DOT huji DOT ac DOT il

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