From: Norman Culver <ndc AT icanect DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Make and long filenames ?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:51:41 -0400
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stwand07 AT uctvms DOT uct DOT ac DOT za wrote:

> problems with the long filenames. 'make' doesn't seem to see source files with
> names longer than 8 characters, and fails to apply any rules to these files. It
> then moans that the object files needed cant be made (no rule to make xxxx).
> 
> I am using make 3.73 under Win95, and have tried setting LFN=Y, but nothing
> seems to work. How can I get 'make' to recognise the long filenames ?


Same here. Also make373 will crash Win95 if you do:

	redir -eo make -? >tempfile
 
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