Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:26:07 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Installation problems (?)
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> Nate Eldredge wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Wouldn't it also be possible to deactivate numeric tails in the registry
> before you create the directory with the long name, thus making the long
> and short names functionally identical?

The underlying problem is actually a very subtle bug in the DJGPP
startup code (which v2.02 should solve).  It only hits people who
don't set LFN=y, and then only those who have LFN=n inside DJGPP.ENV
(as opposed to an actual environment variable).