Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/04/18/07:46:32
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Stuart wrote:
> And finally, I have tried djgpp (Still don't know what that stands
> for??).
The canonical interpretation of DJGPP is DJ's GNU Programming
Platform. However, DJ Delorie (who started DJGPP and maintains it to
this day, and who is the reason for the "DJ" part) allows you to have
your own interpretation if you like ;-)
> I am very puzzled by the LACK of support for long filenames in these
> utilities.
Please take up this puzzlement with Mr. Bill Gates and the rest of
Microsoft folks, who didn't include the long file name API in the NT's
DOS box. DJGPP programs will support long file names on NT the moment
that API will be available, as they do it already on Windows 9X.
> Also, I am very puzzled by the strange behavior of 'ls'. It constantly
> tries to 'resize' my console window
`ls' redirects stdio functions to direct screen writes (to support
colors), and I'm told that NT's DOS box has a misfeature whereby it
resizes the window when a program uses direct video access. Try
invoking `ls' with the `--color=never' option and see if that helps.
If it doesn't, perhaps changing the font size for the DOS shell window
to something specific instead of "Auto" will solve this.
> and I can't (for the life of me) get it to display colours.
Try "ls --color", that should work (it does for me).
> Why should doing a file listing have to resize my window? Bizarre!
Why should Microsoft actively struggle to banish users of DOS programs
from accessing the fine features of Windows/NT? Bizarre! ;-)
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