Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:17:49 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: HK: v 2.1
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Leath Muller wrote:

> >  ren Makefile Makefile~
> >                 This renames it to `Makefile~', but the short name stays
> >                 `MAKEFILE'.  This is a bug IMHO.
> 
> But what does it say under plain DOS, and not a DOS prompt? (Even though
> that is basically irrelevant as we _are_ talking Win95... :)

DOS sees MAKEFILE.  Of course, you cannot rename Makefile to Makefile~ on 
MSDOS, but if you rename it on Windows, then on MSDOS you see the 8+3 
name only.

> I have to admit though, even when
> using Win95, I still only use max of 8.3 character in the filename...

You might do that, but programs which are LFN-aware don't.