Re: [Freedos-user] Latex / long filenames

2021-04-18 Thread Tomas By
On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 05:29:22 +0200, Rugxulo wrote: > Sorry if this isn't a perfect answer (I don't use Latex), but it > should give you some rough idea of what to do. Yes, thanks. IIRC, it worked (ie moved on to next problem) when just making sure to use the Unix commands, and starting over from

Re: [Freedos-user] Latex / long filenames

2021-04-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, (wow, sorry, I'm horribly late in replying) On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:27 PM Tomas By wrote: > > Am trying to use Latex (from DJGPP) in Freedos, and get errors > seemingly having to do with long file names. My memory isn't flawless, so corrections welcome, but Most DJGPP .ZIPs halfway

Re: [Freedos-user] Latex / long filenames

2021-03-20 Thread tom ehlert
> Am trying to use Latex (from DJGPP) in Freedos, and get errors > seemingly having to do with long file names. always try to be a little bit more precise then 'getting errors' > The "dir" command only shows 8+3, try DIR /LFN ... > and when I manually rename using > "move", the name g

Re: [Freedos-user] Latex / long filenames

2021-03-20 Thread Tomas By
Haha, yes, it's only ten thousand files or whatever. (For the record, no that did not seem to work either. "ls" shows the long name, for the renamed file, not all of them, it seems.) /Tomas On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:36:47 +0100, TK Chia wrote: > > Hello Tomas, > > > The "dir" command only shows

Re: [Freedos-user] Latex / long filenames

2021-03-20 Thread TK Chia
Hello Tomas, The "dir" command only shows 8+3, and when I manually rename using "move", the name gets truncated (rather than getting the tilde plus number). Perhaps try doing the renaming using the Bash shell that should come with DJGPP? DJGPP Bash should support long file names. I think Fre

[Freedos-user] Latex / long filenames

2021-03-20 Thread Tomas By
Hello, Am trying to use Latex (from DJGPP) in Freedos, and get errors seemingly having to do with long file names. The "dir" command only shows 8+3, and when I manually rename using "move", the name gets truncated (rather than getting the tilde plus number). "doslfn" is loaded. Any known work-a