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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:31:08 +0300
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Subject: Re: Announce: LBInstDJ the DJGPP installer v0.2
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On 6 Apr 99, at 22:08, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> 
> I've just released the DJGPP installation utility, LBInstDJ v0.2. 
> It tries to simplify DJGPP installation by updating Windows 
> Registry, autoexec.bat and extracting zips. Just use the great
> Zip Picker feature in http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html 
> to download zips, place 'em in one directory, download LBInstDJ 
> (URL below) and run it!
> 
> You can download it from simtel.net:
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/install.exe
> Its source is in the same directory, file lbint02s.zip.
> You can use simtel.net mirrors too.
> 
> This is first LBInstDJ version released, so I am waiting for your
> feedback! Feel free to send me any suggestions, bug-reports.
> E-mail is below:
> 

We must seriously think whether to enable NameNumericTails=1 under Win9X 
permanently as this have some rather nasty side effects that can even cause data 
loss in some situations. I have once suceeded to overwrite file I didn't want to do 
when NameNumericTails=1 were enabled (fortunatelly I had backup copy of lost 
file) . Another example is libg++ tests for egcs-1.1.2 (also gcc-2.8.1 should have 
the same problem but I have not tested it)  in directory libg++/etc/PlotFile3D (File 
$DJDIR/lang/cxx/PlotFile.h conflicts with libg++/etc/Plot3D/PlotFile3D.h in 
egcs112s.zip when NameNumericTails=1).

Therefore installation should recommend to patch registry back after installation.
It can be done by asking at end of installation whether user wants to remove
NameNumericTails=1.

This is also topic that as I think should be in FAQ. I think NameNuericTails=0
should not normally be enabled permanently. 

Due to these problems I removed NameNumericTails=0 from registry.

Andris