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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: MSDOS question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.071852.27396@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 07:18:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug16.071852.27396
- References: <1992Aug15.130845.10401@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- as789@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Francisco J. Diaz) writes:
-
- >Hi All! I have a small question...Is there any utility that
- >modifies COMMAND.COM so that it lets the user give longer file
- >names? Or at least make DOS work that way...I wonder if it is
- >possible to have such long filenames using plain DOS instead of
- >OS/2 or Windows/Norton Desktop combo....Thanks! :-)
-
- There is *no* way to make MS-DOS "allow longer file names".
- Not even with Windows! The structure of DOS itself is uses
- the 8.3 format. You *cannot* have filenames that don't fit.
-
- Now if you want to add *comments* to file names, that's
- a completely different story. There are lots of utilities
- that will let you tag files with arbitrary text strings.
- But that does *nothing* to the file's *name*.
-
- Ylu might look at 4dos. Among a number of useful features
- it lets you add a 40 character description to any file, and
- the description is displayed when you do a DIR. (Or when you
- use 4dos's SELECT command to chose from a group of files)
-
-
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