Yes, Windows search does not recognize shortened ~ file names.
DOS does.
If you open a DOS prompt in Windows XP (Run > CMD), you can type DIR
{shortened file name}and it will show you the long file name.
If you don't know what directory the file is in, try DIR /s
If the output of DIR /s is too long to search through (XP DOS window has
scroll back), try DIR /s {file name} > output.txt. Then you can load the
text file in your favorite editor and search for the result.

"Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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?