> On Jan 14, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote:
> 
> Well, I was messing around a little with the new FreePascal Compiler for DOS.
> 
> Basically, what ships requires DOS LFN support. Many units, libraries and 
> executables
> are longer than the 8.3 standard file names. 
> 
> It would be a lot of tedious work to migrate it to completely support 8.3 
> names. 
> 
> I don’t know if the effort is worth it or not. I know I don’t have the time 
> to do it.
> 
> So basically, unless someone else ports it’s file names that leaves three 
> options.
> 
> 1) stick with the current version.
> 2) leave it alone and require DOSLFN.
> 3) Strip it way way way down.
> 
> I will let some else decide how they would like to handle this. :-)

(Although, I may look into porting it.)

> 
> Jerome
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