On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 16:39:03 -0500, Will Baldwin wrote: > A few days ago, I posted: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Will Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "LifeRaft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 3:57 PM > Subject: [SurvPC] How to make DOS commands use long filenames? <snipped all> Hello: I have seen this same topic of how to get DOS to deal with long filenames discussed frequently on several mailing lists of interest to DOS users. I wish to ask why DOS users should even care to bother with all the hassle of trying to get DOS to recognize long filenames. Why not just rename the long filenames to something legal, or why not just accept the default Windows naming conventions which makes use of the tildes and numbers as substitutes and aliases for the the missing parts of the original long filenames names? If for any reason you really need to know the original long filenames names, then you could easily use a simple DOS utility such as DIRNOTES.COM to produce a directory listing providing both the legal filenames and also the long filenames names. That is the simple solution I resort to. All the other solutions I have seen posted seem to involve having to suffer with big rigmaroles and hassles. Some proposals involve DOS version switching and installing special drivers. It is enough to wake you up screaming from configuration nightmares. Why not just keep it simple and use something like DIRNOTES.COM? My own copy of DIRNOTES.COM is just a 1,704 byte file dated 5-19-87. I think it is freeware. I don't know where you can download it from. If anyone knows, please post. If you want a copy just ask me for it by private email. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
