Re: [Freetype] Re: Summary of ANSI preprocessor trouble..

[Roozbeh Pournader]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Antoine Leca wrote:

> Typically, if you expand the tree using WinZip (the usual way to do
> on a Win platform) on a VFAT partition, the directory will be named
> freetype2 with long file names, but freety~1 using short ones.
> If you use a DOS tool that is unaware of long file names, it will
> indeed truncate the name. And will fail to find freetype, because
> there are no such beast. :-(.

There exists a Windows registry key that changes that "~" behaviour,
and most DOS under windows developers know about that. Take a look at:

        http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq22_19.html

BTW, I think FreeType under DOS with any compiler other than DJGPP
will be only for playing.

--roozbeh