FYI: My instructions where wrong to unset:

fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 0 (not 1 as I earlier posted)

Fat32 by default of the OS is ShortName processing.
NTFS by default is LongName.

Are the files placed in the same folder? Does ProComm have a File | Open
option?

How old is the ProComm app on the XP system? Time to upgrade ProComm for
XP?
A Newer ProComm should not do this. If this is the latest and greatest,
contact ProComm.

"Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:48439971-4935-4D80-9C3B-DA4D4D580255@microsoft.com...
> Ok everything seems to be set properly. A little more information. What
> we
> do is use windows search to find the file name. Then we click and drag
> the
> file name into Procomm. On the windows 98 machines it will fill in the
> file
> name with the shortened file name. On the xp machine it is using the long
> name. I did look at the file system types and the 98 machines are fat32
> and
> the XP is NTSF. I hope this will help in solving are problem.
>
> "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?