Re: Applications that want 8.3 names

[Derrell . Lipman]

Richard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Is anyone aware of Windows applications that will only deal with 8.3 names 
 and cannot deal with long file names?

Modern apps, no.  Lots of Windows 3.1 apps (e.g. Quicken versions from back in
the day) couldn't deal with long file names when moved onto later Windows
versions which would have otherwise supported it.

Derrell

RE: Applications that want 8.3 names

[erx]

Most setup.exe programs are stubs that are 16-bit executables, and want 8.3
filenames.



ERX


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Hi,

Is anyone aware of Windows applications that will only deal with 8.3 names
and cannot deal with long file names?

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

Re: Applications that want 8.3 names

[John E. Malmberg]

Richard Sharpe wrote:

Is anyone aware of Windows applications that will only deal with 8.3 
namesand cannot deal with long file names?

erx wrote:
Most setup.exe programs are stubs that are 16-bit executables, and want 8.3
filenames.
And some of the ones that can handle storing long filenames expect that 
when they extract the files, they will get the same 8.3 alias that they 
had originally, which does not happen because Microsoft has several 
different algorithms for generating the alias.

One of the installers in the Windows NT 4.0 Resource kit has this problem.

-John
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