Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:10:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> > > "command.com /c if not exist glob\nul md glob" 
> > > Returns "Extended Error 183" only if directory exists.  If not, it creates it.
> > 
> > Yes, this was reported before by someone (Andrew?).
> 
> It's on the Win2K status page as a problem, but he couldn't remember
> when/where it happened.

IIRC, it happened while building Make ;-)

> I just noticed in testing that md with a long name truncated it to 8 
> characters.  I haven't done any further testing yet.  I know that many
> of the long name functions do work, so it's a partial thing.  Another
> thing that doesn't work: cd "program files" fails (but works OK on 9x).
> cd "windowsupdate" doesn't work either.  Redirection into a long name
> does work.

I wonder how could they come up with such a weird mixture.  I'd expect 
long names to either work in all situations or not.

Hmm... perhaps the problem is that the emulation of the FCB functions 
doesn't work on NT, so commands which use FCB don't support long names.