Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:10:27 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> Date: 22 Jun 2001 20:21:56 -0000
> From: "Venkata Narasimha Rao G" <gvnr AT rediffmail DOT com>
> 
> I have partitioned my hard disk into two partitions. First has DOS 6.22
> and the second has Windows 98. I got the "DJGPP" from a magazine CD-rom
> and extracted it in DOS partition. I extracted it with shareware PKUNZIP.
> I did not get the long file names in DOS partition. Then I downloaded the
> required ".zip" files from your site and tried to extract with PKUNZIP and
> UNZIP32 from your site, but still I did not get the long file names.
> Can I get long file names on the DOS partition in any way.

No, you can't.  DOS doesn't support long file names, only Windows 9X/ME
and Windows 2000 do.

There are TSRs you can find on the net which add long file-name
support to DOS, but they are not widely tested with DJGPP, and you
could have some problems using them.

But you don't need long names on DOS for the DJGPP compiler and
development tools to work correctly.