From: cwalsh AT nf DOT sympatico DOT ca (Colin Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Rebuilding gcc - "c-parse.gperf" not found
Date: 5 Sep 97 18:36:40 GMT
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In article <199709050837 DOT LAA20221 AT kruuna DOT Helsinki DOT FI>
Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 12:38:46 GMT, in <199709031238 DOT IAA00648 AT delorie DOT com>,
> DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
>> I *do* have Win95.  I just don't like using it.  Given a choice, I'd
>> rather cross-compile the packages from unix, which also supports long
>> file names but does it *right*.
> 
> How about writing a LFN API server for DOS? Of course, that wouldn't solve
> *all* problems, but it would be nice anyway, especially if it required even
> the long names to be 8+3 clean, which would make porting easier.
> 
> -- 
> Esa Peuha
> student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
> http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/
I think that the Interrupt list (by Ralf Brown) has a section (Int 21?)
concerning Windows 4.0/Dos 7 LFNs.

Hope this helps,
Colin Walsh
cwalsh AT nf DOT sympatico DOT ca