Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/25/04:41:07
In article <Pine DOT SOL DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960423213007 DOT 29538B-100000 AT sauron>, "Rafael R. Sevilla" <rsevilla AT upd DOT edu DOT ph> wrote:
>That is my pet peeve with these djgpp programs--their lineage from Unix
>is so explicit that they sometimes fall down when we get to the
>differences between the two operating systems, the pathetic DOS 8.3
>filename limit is only one of them.
The pathetic DOS 8.3 limit is DOS's fault not djgpp.
Use Windows 95 or NT! I have DJGPP running under 95 with no problems, and all
the programs support long filenames even though they are DOS based.
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