Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 11:53:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Orlando Andico <orly AT abigail DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
Cc: Marcelo Cantos <mcantos AT ocean DOT com DOT au>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: YACC and BISON
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On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Orlando Andico wrote:

> > Use Windows 95 or NT! I have DJGPP running under 95 with no problems, and all 
> > the programs support long filenames even though they are DOS based.
> > 
> 
> Really? I don't think naive DOS applications can see the long filenames, 
> what they really see is something like "longfi~1" which is not my idea of 
> support. I don't even think DJGPP does, which forces us to disable the 
> LFN support with SET LFN=N.

That's because most users won't remember to rename all the files that
originally had long names to their original long names.  If you do the
renaming, you can (almost) safely set LFN=y; many people do just that. 
(The ``almost'' thing is due to some obscure corners that aren't LFN-clean
yet.) Enabling LFN by default requires at least making the distribution
archives hold the long names, so it hasn't been done yet.