From:	glloyd AT st DOT net DOT au (gary)
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Subject:	Re: djgpp:281 g++ thanks
Date:	21 Jul 1998 05:20:29 GMT
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On July 19 1998, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>> On 18 Jul 1998, gary wrote:
> 
>> have dnloaded the new version of dj 281 when unzipping gpp281b.zip i
>> encountered a error cannot create g++exe
> 
> If you are doing this on any platform but Windows 9X, just ignore this
  > 
> error.  g++.exe is only for Windows 9X users.  On other platforms, use
  > gpp.exe or gxx.exe instead.
> 
> If you *are* working on Windows 9X, then this error means that you 
> unzipped the files with a program which doesn't support long file 
> names. You should re-unzip using a program which does, or else you 
> will have various problems with libraries and header files which GCC 
> won't find (because on Windows 9X it looks for them using long names).

thanks Eli, i'm on WFWG3.11,i had vague notion that it may be something
like that,i could not reason that only one file would be corrupted

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