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Re: Transferring data.
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Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:55:01 -0800
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Karl Gottshalk wrote:
>
> Does the small dos executable do long file names?
>

Dos will ALWAYS truncate a long file name to xxxxxx~1.yyy

(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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