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From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Subject: Re: emacs,info,packed .inf files 
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On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think that if you call the compressed files as they would be called on 
> Unix (like gcc.i1.gz), it should work.  If it isn't, then the problem is 
> that the DJGPP port of gzip deliberately breaks the LFN support (by 
> forcing the file extension to be 3 characters at most, even when LFN is 
> available).  I think a patch to gzip was posted to the news group, you 
> should be able to get it through mail archives search at DJ Delorie's 
> server.

Yes this is the problem, and yes the patch is available (I wrote it).  
I sent the patch with just diff output and no context - Eli suggested I 
fix the diff.  Sorry I haven't quite gotten around to it.  I'll try to 
post them again this weekend, along with the executables already compiled 
and zipped for the lazy ones (like me :).

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto