Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:48:27 -0800 (PST)
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To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Installation problems (?)
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At 12:49  2/24/1998 -0500, John M. Aldrich wrote:
>benny wrote:
>> 
>> C:\programmering\c\djgpp>"
>
>You cannot install DJGPP into a directory path that contains a long
>filename.  This is because DJGPP programs don't know about long
>filenames until they have found the 'djgpp.env' file.

Correction: I believe you can install DJGPP into a long-named directory. The
only trouble is that you have to use its short alias in the DJGPP
environment variable, because of the aforementioned chicken-and-egg problem.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net