"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" wrote

>> 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?

There is no DOS in XP. It's a command line interpreter, similar in certain
aspects to DOS commands, but it is not DOS.

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Rock [ MVP User/Shell]