Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank Donahoe <fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: "David R. Paoletti" <paoletti AT cps DOT msu DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Cross-Compiling for i960?
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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
Sometimes two long file names will truncate according to the rules to the
same file name.  It is useful to prepare in advance by editing a change
file.  Use the -tvf option to tar and direct the output to a file.  Edit
the file, adding new file names to the line which has the long file name.

Ex:
    fileutilities-312\ChangeLog<tab>fileutil.312\change.log

Don't forget directory names.  Delete all lines which can be passed 
unchanged.  djtar.exe has an option for reading this file and making the
indicated changes to file names.

Frank