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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Installing gcc
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.090020.13000@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 09:00:20 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.052329.24698@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 13
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- duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
- >Excuse me for sounding so ignorant but I'm really stumped here. I want to
- >install gcc 2.2.2d but the install script is asking me for files which are
- >longer than 14 characters (2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z for example). Am I missing
- >something here or is it now possible to have filenames longer than 14
- >characters? If the latter is true, how do I do this?
-
- The filesystem will truncate the longer names, but the GCC installation
- script works anyway. You shouldn't need to worry about it, unless you
- try to rename the files in some way.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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