Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/03/28/19:02:37
Also, even if you leave short name generation on, there's no guarantee
that the sequence number part of the generated short name for "Program
Files" will be ~1. It's very likely, but if "Program Files" is not the
first directory created in the current directory starting with 'Progra',
for example, Progra~1 may refer to that directory, or to none at all (if
the directory that got ~1 has since been removed).
stephan();
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
Of Linda W
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:59 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
Subject: Re: Spaces in Paths
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
> Changing
>
> program files
>to
> progra~1
>might also work.
>
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It _might_, is true. But if you turn off short-filename
generation on NT file systems to speed up NTFS performance and
reduce the space needed for directory entries, it won't:
----
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001
----
The only reason one might leave this enabled, is if one is
running old programs that are not Win32 compatible.
-l
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