Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Spaces in Paths Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:58:29 -0800 Message-ID: <23AA05B1B7171647BC38C5D761900EA40193111D@DF-SEADOG-MSG.exchange.corp.microsoft.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Stephan Mueller" To: "Linda W" , Cc: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\)" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Mar 2005 00:00:56.0921 (UTC) FILETIME=[62003490:01C533F2] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j2T02W6h004222 Also, even if you leave short name generation on, there's no guarantee that the sequence number part of the generated short name for "Program Files" will be ~1. It's very likely, but if "Program Files" is not the first directory created in the current directory starting with 'Progra', for example, Progra~1 may refer to that directory, or to none at all (if the directory that got ~1 has since been removed). stephan(); -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Linda W Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:59 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) Subject: Re: Spaces in Paths Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: > Changing > > program files >to > progra~1 >might also work. > --- It _might_, is true. But if you turn off short-filename generation on NT file systems to speed up NTFS performance and reduce the space needed for directory entries, it won't: ---- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001 ---- The only reason one might leave this enabled, is if one is running old programs that are not Win32 compatible. -l -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/