win 98 would find long name, you click long name drag to ms-dos program and
it fills in as short name. So bottom line is go back to win 98 or try to
find new dos program. I am sure there is thousands of communications
programs. All we are doing is communicating in ASCII with a factory machine,
any recomendations?

"Eric" wrote:

> 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
> 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?
>
>
>