Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/24/13:33:25
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think that if you call the compressed files as they would be called on
> Unix (like gcc.i1.gz), it should work. If it isn't, then the problem is
> that the DJGPP port of gzip deliberately breaks the LFN support (by
> forcing the file extension to be 3 characters at most, even when LFN is
> available). I think a patch to gzip was posted to the news group, you
> should be able to get it through mail archives search at DJ Delorie's
> server.
Yes this is the problem, and yes the patch is available (I wrote it).
I sent the patch with just diff output and no context - Eli suggested I
fix the diff. Sorry I haven't quite gotten around to it. I'll try to
post them again this weekend, along with the executables already compiled
and zipped for the lazy ones (like me :).
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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto
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