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Long-names dos not work in DOS Prompt
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My DOS prompt in XP does not recognize long-names and names with sapces, why ?? Thanks a lot !!! Sara. |
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Long-names dos not work in DOS Prompt
Sara wrote:
Hello, My DOS prompt in XP does not recognize long-names and names with sapces, why ?? Thanks a lot !!! Sara. Sara, The first thing to try is to put the file name or complete path name in quotes. DOS will always recognize six alpha characters + ~ + numeral. i.e. abcdef~2 where abcdef is the first 6 chars of the file name. The numeral gets rid of redundant file or directory names. The first redundant name being ~1 Hope this helps Carl F Carl F |
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Long-names dos not work in DOS Prompt
Dos in XP doesn't support long file names. However Dos never executes any
commands, it passes them to the Windows Console for the console to execute (very similar but not exactly the same commands). External commands usually need "" around filenames. But it depends on the program. "Carl F" wrote in message ink.net... Sara wrote: Hello, My DOS prompt in XP does not recognize long-names and names with sapces, why ?? Thanks a lot !!! Sara. Sara, The first thing to try is to put the file name or complete path name in quotes. DOS will always recognize six alpha characters + ~ + numeral. i.e. abcdef~2 where abcdef is the first 6 chars of the file name. The numeral gets rid of redundant file or directory names. The first redundant name being ~1 Hope this helps Carl F Carl F |
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