Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 18:40:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "David R. Paoletti" <paoletti AT cps DOT msu DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Cross-Compiling for i960?
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On 16 Apr 1996, David R. Paoletti wrote:

> Still have a few questions though.  What exactly do I do
> about the long unix filenames under DOS?  I couldn't even
> extract the tar files for gcc and binutils on my PC due
> to long and invalid filenames.

Use the `djtar' program which comes with DJGPP v2 (if you got version of 
DJGPP prior to v2.0, toss it and get v2).  This program will convert many 
filenames too long for DOS automatically, and for those that it cannot it 
will ask you to provide a name legal under DOS.  It will also create a 
file that lists all the filename conversions it did.  Djtar unzips the 
.tar.gz file on-the-fly, so you don't need twice the disk space while 
running gunzip piped to tar.

Djtar is documented in the utils.inf Info file.