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From:	alexlehm AT rbg DOT informatik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: What to use? LongFileNames, Grep etc
Date:	23 Feb 1996 00:58:37 GMT
Organization:	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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jason AT willow DOT watson DOT ibm DOT com wrote:

: I've ported (and enhanced) GNU Grep to EMX (OS/2) and would like to 
: port it to Win95.  I've actually tried using RSX, but it seems to get 
: confused.  (I haven't checked out the details of the confusion yet.) 
: What's the standard way to port non graphical GNU tools to Win95 
: (with long file name support)?

Well, any program compiled with djgpp v2 supports long filenames unless it
is explicitly turned off (LFN=n). To good thing about this is that the
same executable also works on normal DOS etc, while e.g. win32 console
applications don't (e.g. with bcc32 or Watcom).

I would guess that rebuilding an application that was previously compiled
with emx with djgpp2 should be simple.


bye, Alexander

BTW. Does the long filename support of djgpp also work on OS/2? This would
certainly make djgpp the most usefull development system in the one executable
fits all category.

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