Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:09:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mark Habersack Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl To: Joyce Osagie cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: long filenames In-Reply-To: <519hn1$bjt@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Joyce Osagie wrote: >In the archives for this group someone was saying >that they could get rid of the ~1 in MS-Dos filenames. > >For example instead of longfilename.txt becoming >longfi~1.txt it would become longfile.txt. > >Does anyone know what to change in win95 to make this >happen. Check out DJGPP FAQ section 8.2 on NameNumericTail. It gives you all the info do do just what you want. ********************************************************************** So if you ask me how do I feel inside, I could honestly tell you we've been taken on a very long ride. And if my owners let me have free time some day, with all good intention I would probably run away! Clutching the short straw... ******************* http://ananke.amu.edu.pl/~grendel ****************