These articles may help.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ing_a_file.asp
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true

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"Scott" wrote:
| We use a communications program (Procomm Plus) that works in MS-DOS. All
the
| PCs in the shop are running Windows 98 SE except one which is Windows XP.
| After putting the XP PC in service we find that the Procomm will not
| recognize our long file names (I.E. 100400100P.pme). On the Windows 98
PCs
| it would automatically shorten the name with a ~ somewhere in the name
(I.E.
| 1004~9.pme or something like that). With the XP PC it says the file is
not
| found. Is there a way to revert back to the old way with out going back
to
| 98 SE?