MT> But is there any solution? 

Switch OSes?

 MT> The only way I know is to disable the creation of short names on
ntfs volumes in the registry.

In w95, one can set "NameNumericTail" to 0 to get rid of those
annoying ~s (at least for the first 8.3 name created, the next will get a
~1).

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Peter

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