Via: uk.ac.aston; Thu, 4 Feb 1993 12:33:15 +0000
To: engdahl AT brutus DOT aa DOT ab DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: John Fletcher <ECM9093 AT pcmail DOT aston DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: 4 Feb 93 12:32:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Porting GCC 2.3.3
Reply-To: J DOT P DOT Fletcher AT aston DOT ac DOT uk

> The following is a program called zmangle, which is a hacked up version
> of DJ's djtarx. What it does that is new is automatically mangle long
> filenames to fit into the 8.3 format. Someone might find it useful as a
> start in making filenames fit. I first wrote it as a means to unpack
> the BSD distribution from ftp.uu.net on my PC. The BSD sources there
> have most files compressed, and the whole thing was tarred due to using
> the automatic tar on their fancy ftp server.
>
I have now tried to compile this with DJGPP V1.09.  It fails with
messages indicating a wrong number of arguments for mkdir().  This
function is shown in std.h as mkdir(char *,int).  Does anyone know
the solution of this?

John


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