| Re: MS-DOS long file names
How does this help?
"Rock" wrote:
> "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.
>
> --
>
> Rock [ MVP User/Shell]
>
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