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Re: Long filenames and NMAKE.

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From: Mike Thompson,332,54714,2734927
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:57
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From article <1jp9bbINNl19@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>, by duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy):
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> A while ago I posted about problems with long filenames and the make that comes
> with the WorkSet/2 stuff.  Someone suggested that I get the new make from
> hobbes (under .../2.0/programming), which I did.
> 
> ------------  BEGIN ERROR MESSGAE  -----------------
> 
> Invocation of <NMAKE.EXE> begins 
> Invocation string:  /f SYSTEM.MAK 
>  
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.01 
> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-1989. All rights reserved. 
>  
> SYSTEM.MAK(26) : filename 'SystemInit.c' too long; truncating to 8.3 
> SYSTEM.MAK(26) : filename '.\SystemInit.c' too long; truncating to 8.3 
> SYSTEM.MAK(26) : filename 'D:\FORTRAN\INCLUDE\SystemInit.c' too long; 
> SYSTEM.MAK(26) : filename 'D:\TOOLKT20\C\OS2H\SystemInit.c' too long; 
> NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'SystemInit.c' 

Looks to me like you are running on a FAT partition which doesn't allow
more than 8.3 format.  Is the real file on the disk systemin.c when you
want systeminit.c?  Only get that error message on FAT where I used to
ignore the characters beyond 8.3, but OS/2 doesn't.
-- 
Michael O. Thompson            tommy@msc.cornell.edu
Cornell University             (607) 255-4714

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