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From: kunst AT natlab DOT research DOT philips DOT com (Pieter Kunst)
Subject: Re: help: djgpp v2 C++ headers
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:18:59 GMT
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In article <DLBD2q DOT E5u AT jade DOT mv DOT net> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
>
>On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Charles Sandmann wrote:
>
>> > e:/djgpp-v2/lang/cxx/iostream.h:31: streambuf.h: No such file or directory 
>> > For some unknown reason gcc isn't accepting any header files longer than
>> > the 8.3 dos limitation, so iostream and streambuf and all the rest are not
>> 
>> Win 95.  LFN stuff.  "SET LFN=N" and see other messages in this group.  I
>> rapidly see this as a W95 FAQ, eh?  No good deed goes unpunished ;-)
>> Humm, maybe LFNs should be default off ...
>
>Can't the distribution archives be built with the long filenames already 
>in it?  That way, unzipping them on DOS will truncate the names, while 
>Win95 users get long filenames.

Nice idea.

>Does the ZIP format even support long filenames?

Yes it does. Our Unix version creates zip files with long names.
These zip files can be unzipped using 'WinZip for W95' on a W95 PC.
Works as expected.

Pieter.