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From: mcantos AT ocean DOT com DOT au (Marcelo Cantos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: YACC and BISON
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 14:38:40 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT SOL DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960423213007 DOT 29538B-100000 AT sauron>, "Rafael R. Sevilla" <rsevilla AT upd DOT edu DOT ph> wrote:
>That is my pet peeve with these djgpp programs--their lineage from Unix 
>is so explicit that they sometimes fall down when we get to the 
>differences between the two operating systems, the pathetic DOS 8.3 
>filename limit is only one of them.

The pathetic DOS 8.3 limit is DOS's fault not djgpp.

Use Windows 95 or NT! I have DJGPP running under 95 with no problems, and all 
the programs support long filenames even though they are DOS based.