"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "Stewart Gordon" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > Things like that are pet peeves of mine (ie, using ".htm" instead of > ".html", ".jpg" instead of ".jpeg", etc.) The only reason for the > three-letter versions in the first place was Windows 3.11 and prior. Such > restriction was removed over a decade ago.
I've encountered trouble with Windows Installer when trying to install files with long filenames onto Windows 98. It just wouldn't install the files correctly. I never found out the exact cause but instead just renamed the files back to short names to fix it. Fortunately we've recently dropped support for Windows 98. :) But for driver files that have to go into C:\Windows\System32 I still have a fear of breaking away from 8.3. Maybe it's superstition at this point, but who knows what 8.3 troubles still lurk in Windows. Jim
