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From: "JohnT" <johnt@nettech.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: DOS filename problem
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:58:53 +0100
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You don't have to rename the files but you will have to edit the makefile.
Here is what you do...

Where you have a long filename or directory name just edit it and shorten it
to the first 6 characters, remove any spaces. Then add ~ followed by a
number. The tricky bit is the number! Usually it will be 1, but if there has
been an occurrence of the first 6 characters before then it will be 2, 3
etc. so making it unique. You will need to exit to DOS and do a directory
listing to find out the numbers. Best to pipe the directory listing to a
text file (E.G. DIR >MYDIR.TXT) so you can use that as a reference in
Windows.
This will even work for programs that do recognise long filenames because
when Windows looks for a file or directory it will check both the long and
short versions on the disk.

JohnT

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n.atkinson@cs.ucl.ac.uk wrote in message
<6fo5f0$6ne12@chuka.playstation.co.uk>...
>Hi all
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>I am desperately trying to get my final year project sorted...
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>I have been using Codewarrior for some time, but I am trying to use the GNU
>c compiler now, as I have not been able to get codewarrior to deal with GNU
>makefiles.
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>Now I have a problem with gcc not recognising long filenames (under both NT
>and 95). Does anyone have a solution to this or at least know where I can
>get one?
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>Altering the filenames is not a possibility, as i am trying to build the
>Java source tree (lots and lots of files!).
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>please reply to my email address
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>TIA
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>Nigel Atkinson
>n.atkinson@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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