Dear Friends, My PC is workihg under Windows XP Professional (SP3) and Int Expl 8. My HD (C:\) has the NTFS Partition. I find it quite convenient using the DOS and CMD Programming System (32 bit). My problem is the 8.3 "Short File"DOS naming convention. For example, Lets assume that there are 2 files in my HD, created by the "Notepad " Editor. One is named "GePostStore.txt" and the other is "GePostString.txt" . When I execute the "DIR GePost*.txt ,
I will get the "Gepost~1.txt "and "Gepost~2.txt .I saw a few hints to implement the Lomg File Naming convention, (Which I actually wish to apply in my PC)
All of the solutions used the Registry to solve this issue. I do not like tampering the Registry. Is there an another way to do it? I am a Newbe fere and I dont know where
to expect the answer, Will I get a notification into ny Email ? Thanks a Lot. Geekiss.
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(Solved) - Disabling the 8.3 mode, file naming in DOS and/or CMD scripts
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According to How to Disable the 8.3 Name Creation on NTFS Partitions
To disable the 8.3 name creation on all NTFS partitions, type
fsutil.exe behavior set disable8dot3 1
at a command prompt, and then press ENTER.
Hello, Dissapointing news for me and those who bothered spending their time trying to help. Well, I prepared a small comman file and named it
Check.bat. And prepared a folder (C:\Work) with a few long-name-files. Here is the contents of this file.(The # character symbolizes the ENTER
key: @echo off # CD C:\Work # fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1 # Pause > nul # DIR /S /B # Pause > nul # Exit # . I clicked the Check.bat
file and no changes in the file name length. every one remained in the 8.3 mode including the ~n and the 3 character extesion (abcdef~1.txt )
. Later-on I changed the commandfile's extenson to CMD (Check.CMD ) . Any Ideas ? geekiss.
The Command Line Reference has grown HUGE since the days of old Dos.
http://technet.microsoft.com/e.....y/cc772390(v=ws.10).aspx
Almost impossible to remember all the commands and syntax with switches plus their use.
Hello,
Enough is enough. I dont wish to get a stigma as a nagger. And besides, I have found an excellent Search Engine naned "Agent Ransack " which displays ALL
the directories and files with long file nam3es [even the short ones ;-)) ]...
Appreciations to all of you, with such a nice and patient attitude. See you again. Geekiss.
P.S. How can you be reached (I mean, what URL to use) in case I have a different Theme ?
The url for here, is, http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/
