Re: A86: long file names

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Subject: Re: A86: long file names
From: Kirk Meyer <_@ibm.net>
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 18:30:02 -0600
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IMHO, I think long file names are the worst feature of Windows 95
because whenever you have to do something in DOS you have to use those
crappy ~# things unless you turn them off and even then it still
sucks...

Trey Jazz wrote:
> 
> has anyone considered making a program that renames and runs long file
> names? this could be done if the first bytes in the program after the tokens
> and checksum are shifted to the offset of the name - 8 if the name is over 8
> characters long and then they can be run through the shell or through a
> sqrtPARSE program. what you think?

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