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From: locke AT mcs DOT net (Peter Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Long file names/editor
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 16:08:25 GMT
Organization: BiLogic
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On Sun, 04 Aug 1996 11:53:47 GMT, Jere_McDevitt AT theratx DOT com wrote:

>This is a follow-up to my own message. Just for your info
>
>I asked if anyone new of a DOS editor that had context hilighting and
>worked with long file names (under Win95).  I said I used JED to do my
>C programming but it didn't like files like HELLO.JAVA.
>
>Well, (and others might be interested in this) I retrieved the source
>for JED and discovered that if code uses the open command when using
>DJGPP (gcc) then long file names aren't supported.  However, _open
>does use long file names.  
>
>So, I re-compiled and now have what I wanted.
Did you use the JED source that is included in the Linux distro, and
then just compile it under DJGPP? Or is there a DJGPP-specific
version?

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Peter Johnson
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locke AT mcs DOT net
http://www.mcs.net/~locke/
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Freelance C/C++/Pascal/Asm programmer
 for DJGPP, Borland, and Watcom compilers
Member of BiLogic demo group
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