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Sorry Daniel, but Jean is correct.
DOS does not have (and never has had) the ability to store more than 8
characters in a file name. What may be confusing you is that if you run a
DOS shell from within windows9x (and NT?), it can deal with LFN but a true
DOS environment can not.
And then, as Jean pointed out, there were/are several DOS-based
applications that could make a file "appear" to have a longer name by
creating a database-type file with a cross-reference of the true 8
character filename to a longer name which that application created. But
once you transferred the file to a system without that special program,
the file was back to it's 8dot3 name.
Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Twin*.*Star <[log in to unmask]>
>Like I said, I saw a program over a year ago that could use DOS and keep
>LFNs. Don't remember the name or if it was a "transfer" program or a
backup
>program. I think, it was a "transfer" program but I can not be sure.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: JMB <[log in to unmask]>
>>Dos will ALWAYS truncate a long file name to xxxxxx~1.yyy
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>>(I think there are some old unique flavors of DOS programs that did
>>allow a long file name through software manipulation but MSDOS was never
>>one of them.)
>>--
>>Jean Bourvic :>))
>>>
>
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