Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:19:48 +0400 (MSD) From: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" Message-Id: <199610240719.LAA17748@video.yars.free.net> To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: LFN under W95 (longish) > I did this sort of thing for ages, and nothing broke. I even tried: > edit test.aaa > and saved as > test.aaab When you 'save as', the editor don't rename file. It obviously *creates* new file and then deletes old one. So the bug doesn't appear. > and renamed test.aaab to test.aaac, and had the following list: You renamed a file which already had a mangled short name, so the bug does not appear too. (I'm quite sure short name did not change, but as it is different from old file name, it is ok) Try this: echo a > 12345678.901 ren 12345678.901 12345678.901suffix echo b > 12345678.901 type 12345678.901suffix (just tried and it showed the bug)