Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 07:48:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: bzip2 port to DJGPP
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> (Yeah, I know I should write a tutorial on porting Unix software, but 
> where do I get the time??  Hopefully, this will be useful to people out 
> there.)
> 
> On 6 Jan 1999, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> 
> > "http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/bzip2-0.9.0c-DOS.zip" or
> > "ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/dkaufman/bzip2-0.9.0c-DOS.zip"
> 
> Thanks for your efforts in porting this.
> 
> I took a quick look at this port.  Here are some comments.
> 
> > I believe that long filenames will probably be preserved under Windows9x
> 
> No, they aren't.  The ported program works on Windows 9X exactly as it
> does on plain DOS.  For example, `foo.bar' is compressed into
> `foo_bar.bz2', not into `foo.bar.bz2' as a Windows user would expect.

I had no idea that filenames with more than one "." were allowed on
Windows 9x. When I said "long filenames will probably be preserved", I
really meant to say "more than 8 characters of the filename will
probably be preserved".

> ... (lots of good suggestions)

Thanks for all the pointers. As you can probably tell, I am not a
programmer. I'll try to incorporate these suggestions and redo the
port. All other suggestions welcome.
                                Doug
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