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- From: tommy@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Mike Thompson,332,54714,2734927)
- Subject: Re: Long filenames and NMAKE.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.175753.24214@msc.cornell.edu>
- Originator: tommy@snoopy.msc.cornell.edu
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <1jp9bbINNl19@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:57:53 GMT
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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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