Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Windows "File name too long" problem

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

nonsense.   I can 'cmd' and use 'cd progra~1' all the time.   In fact... 
I still do it all the time.

You can use this shortcut from the start->run prompt to...  Until that 
prompt started filling in recently used queries, I would always use 
'progra~1' and whatever the shortcut was for 'documents and settings' 
(didn't use that one as much). Mydocu~1 too.

Not much point since you can type 'desktop' or 'my documents' at the 
start->run as aliases now.

Jason Youngquist wrote:
> In windoze, if you goto start-->run and type the following in...
>
> "cmd.exe" you can "cd" to full pathnames ie. "program files"
>
> whereas
>
> "command.exe" is only 8 character pathnames...ie. "progra~1"
>
>
> so it probably depends which Windoze "DOS" you use.
>
> --jason
>
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> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
> >
> > > DIR /X
> > > DIR /?
> >
> >
> > Thanks.  I'll try that.  I'll try some tests at some point to see how 
> > I'm supposed to handle this stuff most effectively.
> >
> > It is interesting that I could not delete the file from a Cygwin RXVT 
> > terminal, but I could delete it from Command Prompt.  More research is 
> > needed!
> >
> > Mike
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