Re: A86: long file names

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Subject: Re: A86: long file names
From: David Phillips <electrum@tfs.net>
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 23:50:08 -0500
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Sorry, WAY off topic, but how do you turn those off?  Microsoft should have
just added descriptions to files, not messed with the names...like
4DOS/NDOS lets you describe files and have the descriptions follow the name
in the DIR list.

At 06:30 PM 5/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>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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References:

A86: long file names

From: "Trey Jazz" <joemama@minot.com>

Re: A86: long file names

From: Kirk Meyer <_@ibm.net>