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From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: compiling emacs 19.34
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:19:54 -0800
Organization: Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To: Chun Cheung YIM <chcy AT toaster DOT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

Chun Cheung YIM wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>   After spending a few hours downloading the emacs distribution included in
> simtel's v2gnu directory , I found that I had problem unzipping the files
> into the proper long filename files under win95.  Both pkunzip and unzip386
> showed the long filenames during the extraction process but when I check it
> out, the long filenames are truncated to the 8.3 format, can someone please
> tell me how I can fix this problem?  I really want to get emacs work under
> win95.  Thanks fpr helping!

pkunzip does not support extraction of long filenames.  To do this with
unzip386, you _must_ run it from a Win95 DOS shell.  Simply shutting
down in DOS mode won't work.  Also, make sure you either set LFN=Y from
your environment, or change the line in DJGPP.ENV that reads "+LFN=N" to
"+LFN=Y".

-- 
John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I <fighteer AT cs DOT com>

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