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From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Sorry, but i have a question.
Date:	Tue, 05 Mar 1996 18:09:57 -0800
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Pieter Kunst wrote:

> (1) Switch over to Windows 95. You can run DJGPP in a Windows 95
>     DOS box with 'long file name' (LFN) support. Then you don't have
>     to change the Unix file names.
> 
> (2) Change the Unix file names to 8.3 format. That way, it will work
>     on both MSDOS and Unix platforms.

Another solution is to merely truncate the filenames (not the extensions).
That is, longfilename.c should become longfile.c.  Most DOS applications will
merely silently truncate the filename similarly in open requests (including
DJGPP, as I've found), and will not cause a problem.

At least, this works in DJGPP 1.x.  I would imagine that it hasn't changed in
2.0.

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