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From: | broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Long filenames again |
Date: | 5 Nov 1999 10:57:33 +0100 |
Organization: | RWTH Aachen, III. physikalisches Institut B |
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Nicolas Regnier (regnier AT enscpb DOT u-bordeaux DOT fr) wrote: > It appears that long filenames are not working in NT Dos boxes... Yep. Complaints about that should go to William H. Gates III, c/o Microsoft Corporation. > I am just trying to build a java application using gnu make 3.77 (and > sun jdk) : it works fine with Windows 95 or 98, but Windows NT doesn't > understand the source name since it's not "8.3 compliant"... Exactly. NT itself has all kinds of support for long filenames. It just doesn't bother serving them to *DOS* application. > Is there a way to resolve this problem ? Maybe using bash ? The key is *not* to use a DOS application. Use Cygnus Solutions' Win32-native tools, commonly known as 'Cygwin32'. There's a GNU make, a GNU bash, and all that. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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