Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:34:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT chinook DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: gzip (Was: Question about hardware interrupts...)
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On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Which gzip do you have?  If that's gzip compiled with v2.0, I hope it 
> does that automagically when LFN is set to `y'.  If not, then that's a 
> bug in the DJGPP port (probably from the old v1.x days when no long 
> filenames were available).  In the latter case, you are out of luck, 
> unless you care enough to get the gzip sources and correct the bug.

I have gzip version 1.2.4, which is the newest I could find on the SimTel 
mirrors.  It dates itself Aug 18, 1993.  It's definitely v1.x.  
Downloaded the source to re-compile it, but I haven't downloaded sed so 
it'll have to wait.

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto