"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> Speaking of naming directories, I was told once that
> you can use up to eleven chars in a directory name?
> 8.3>8+3=11 Is that correct?
Under DOS/Win311 yes. The so-called 8.3 naming
convention comes from that. Down in the directory
entry (low level), the actually stored version of a
file name like "VERYGOOD.TXT" is "VERYGOODTXT" (the
period is never actually stored).
Regards,
Garry
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