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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Long File Names under MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <862@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 02:24:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: nicmad.862
Posted: Thu Sep 18 02:24:37 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Sep-86 23:41:19 EDT
References: <44600005@datacube>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <44600005@datacube> berger@datacube.UUCP writes:
>
>Is there a way to tell MS-DOS to allow file names that are greater
>than 8 characters long?

You actually have 11 characters.  The 8 character file name and the 3
character extension.  But, unfortunately that is it.  MS and PC-DOS is
defined to that number by the logic with which the directory entries work.

Remember it isn't UNIX.
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