Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:58:27 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: David Stuart cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Best NT port of gnu file and text utils? In-Reply-To: <3716551b.772592140@mernews0> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Stuart wrote: > And finally, I have tried djgpp (Still don't know what that stands > for??). The canonical interpretation of DJGPP is DJ's GNU Programming Platform. However, DJ Delorie (who started DJGPP and maintains it to this day, and who is the reason for the "DJ" part) allows you to have your own interpretation if you like ;-) > I am very puzzled by the LACK of support for long filenames in these > utilities. Please take up this puzzlement with Mr. Bill Gates and the rest of Microsoft folks, who didn't include the long file name API in the NT's DOS box. DJGPP programs will support long file names on NT the moment that API will be available, as they do it already on Windows 9X. > Also, I am very puzzled by the strange behavior of 'ls'. It constantly > tries to 'resize' my console window `ls' redirects stdio functions to direct screen writes (to support colors), and I'm told that NT's DOS box has a misfeature whereby it resizes the window when a program uses direct video access. Try invoking `ls' with the `--color=never' option and see if that helps. If it doesn't, perhaps changing the font size for the DOS shell window to something specific instead of "Auto" will solve this. > and I can't (for the life of me) get it to display colours. Try "ls --color", that should work (it does for me). > Why should doing a file listing have to resize my window? Bizarre! Why should Microsoft actively struggle to banish users of DOS programs from accessing the fine features of Windows/NT? Bizarre! ;-)