Date:	Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:05:13 -0500 (EST)
From:	Howard Kaikow <kaikow AT standards DOT com>
Message-Id:	<199603071405.JAA13481@mv.mv.com>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, kaikow AT standards DOT com
Subject:	Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Until I saw the V2 FAQ, yesterday, I had not been informed of the need to 
modify the registry. All I did was set LFN=Y in autoexec.bat.

So far, I have only recompiled a few programs under v2, but I have not 
yet seen any problems with names such as a.b.c.

>From eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il Thu Mar  7 08:53:30 1996

>As far as I know, the FAQ tells you everything that we know about that 
>should be done to get LFN support:
>
>	1) Modify the registry setting for NameNumericTale.
>	2) Rename all files whose names are longer than 8+3 to their 
>original long names (e.g. streambu.h -> streambuf.h).
>	3) Set LFN=y
>
>The last setting should be done from DOS command line or autoexec.bat, 
>because of the bug (that was detected after FAQ was released) that causes 
>the setting in DJGPP.ENV to be ignored in some cases.
>
>If you see any problems after you do the above, please tell about them.
>

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