Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:09:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Joyce Osagie <josagie AT mustang DOT uwo DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: long filenames
In-Reply-To: <519hn1$bjt@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Joyce Osagie wrote:

>In the archives for this group someone was saying 
>that they could get rid of the ~1 in MS-Dos filenames. 
>
>For example instead of longfilename.txt becoming 
>longfi~1.txt it would become longfile.txt.  
>
>Does anyone know what to change in win95 to make this
>happen.
Check out DJGPP FAQ section 8.2 on NameNumericTail. It gives you all the info
do do just what you want.

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