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echo: batpower
to: Bruce Howells
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2003-03-04 15:53:58
subject: Bye-Bye LFNs?

Hi Bruce.

02-Mar-03 14:03:36, Bruce Howells wrote to Bat Lang


 BH> Greets Batmeister!  Where I work we have a need for a dos util
 BH> which can scan a drive and remove all Long FileNames. The sys is
 BH> command line version Win98 Any ideas (please :)? Bruce

two ideas:

1  use a move tool to move the files and subdiirectories one at a time to a
   new location and then move them back,  the LFNs will "fall off".

2  use the dos defrag tool. but first edit the config file to turn off LFN
   support.

 -=> Bye <=-

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