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From:  thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...>
thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...>
Date:  Mon Mar 12, 2001  5:44 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] off-topic: "long file name" snafu


Ernie, 255 character file names was a new concept with Windows NT, the
commercial release of Windows, and subsequently Windows 98 and Windows
2000. Files in Windows 95 or MS-Dos will be shorten to 8 characters,
preceded by a tilde (~). If you have many similarly named files, this can
be rather confusing.

Mark Montgomery

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Ernie Valenzuela wrote:

> If any of you knowledgeable (& more than anything)
> Windows literate people have any insight on the
> issue of "long file names" & why they can or cannot
> be seen in certain formats of Windows 98/95 -
> would please respond to me privately.


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