Date:	Mon, 4 May 1998 00:51:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Michael Phelps <loverns AT welchlink DOT welch DOT jhu DOT edu>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>, Aaron Judd <judda AT lethe DOT nosc DOT mil>,
	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP installation problems
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980503181725.19706b-100000@is>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SOL.3.96.980504004953.23192A-100000@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>
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On Sun, 3 May 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 1 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > Long file names are not supported on Windows NT, and the numeric tails
> > affixed to the short aliases confuse the compiler. Unzip with a non-LFN
> > unzipper, or I believe there is a Windows setting to disable numeric tails.
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> AFAIK, there's no such option on Windows NT, only on Windows 9X.
> 

That's actually not true.  I use Windows NT 4.0 at work and setting the
numeric tail option in the registry works the same as in Windows 95.

							---Michael Phelps

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