Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 02:58:57 -0600 From: "phillip ramirez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Long file name utility?
Matt, Next time a computer show is in town stop by some of the booths.. Youll get them cheep.. I paid 5 bucks apiece for mine froma local dealer.. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 1:52 AM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Long file name utility? Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 07:47:22 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Long file name utility? >Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:37:35 >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I'm coming to this late - but is the situation that windows won't boot, >but >other files are required? I've never seen a Windows OS as screwed up as this one DOS asked for one after another file that is needed to boot with. After copying a number of files from another system, it finally started to boot to the desktop... where the system promptly froze with no clue what to do at that point. I ghosted and backed up all his important files, and David found the C&S services software to get my CD-ROM working on the Fujitsu. Srounged up a 'real' W95 installation disk, and copied all the relevent files to the D: partition. Then reinstalled W95 over itself. I DID find a utility that backs up the long file names in pure DOS, and info on the process here: http://www.lisp.com.au/~michael/personal/LFNBackups.html Maybe this will help you Fran. The utility is: DOSLFNBK.EXE ... and there's a link there to download it. Essentially you execute a command to create a file that contains all of the long file names. Then zip up all the files, unzip them on another system, and run the restore option to rename the DOS file names to the originals. >It seems to me that in this case the easy way would be to stuff the >disk in >a desktop as a second disk - not the boot disk. I know this has been my >battle cry of many moons now :) but the desktop windows system will be able >to see the long file structures and long file names. Zip and replace as >required. One of these days I gotsta get one of those IDE adaptors. That method seem a very practical method of doing a lot of work on notebook HDDs. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ************************************************************** _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
