From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT chocolat DOT obvious DOT fake DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Long name support in DOS
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 21:10:56 +0100
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In article <897260722 DOT 166841 AT michelob>, Ian St. John <istjohn AT sprint DOT ca>
writes

I don't intend to reply after this, since its highly likely this is just
a 12 year old trolling.

>I went to dos mode, Boot, F8, F6. Command line only, or Start, Shutdown,
>exit to MS-DOS.
>And your wrong. It work's fine.
>
>Then I went to '8. load previous version' to load PC-DOS 7, and you are
>right. It doesn't work.

I don't know what you are running but thats exactly what I did before
posting the last reply, and it definitely does not work on my copy of
Win95. I've just tried again and it still does not work. So what OS are
you actually running? Its not MSDOS 1 thru 7.

Try it with NameNumericTail=0 and no spaces in the name and you will be
able to cd into the directory. But thats only because dos truncates the
name to 8.3 format, and NameNumericTail forces windoze to do the same.
No long filenames involved anywhere.

If you think a request to stop spreading misinformation is an insult you
won't last long on the net ;) (Probably a good thing)

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