On Friday, Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
] not read them in detail. Apparently in W98/95, there are aliases in 8.3 form
] in which the first x letters (6 *or* less) of the LFN are retained, followed
] by the tilde (~), then a number with the number incrementing each time in the
] event the first x letters already exist.
FWIW I know of a registry hack that can get rid of the tilde's:
"This is a stupidly long filename.txt" would normally be stored in
the FAT as THISIS~1.TXT. With the addition is would be stored as
THISISAS.TXT. A little bit better. :) It will resort to the tilde's
to avoid duplicate filenames, however.
The only problem is I don't remember exactly how to do it. I know it
involves adding a new value. There's probably info on the web how to
do it, or I could go searching through my old magazines...(Needs a
cleanup anyway <G>)
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