-=> Quoting John Thompson to All <=-

 JT> I've just noticed an interesting problem/bug:

 JT> I've tried to keep all my long-filenamed files on an hpfs 
 JT> partition but recently my wife and my son have started storing 
 JT> some IBM Works documents with LFN's on the FAT partition.  I went
 JT> to look at some of these from a command line window and was 
 JT> unable to see them.  The on-line help says that "dir /r" should 
 JT> display the long filenames but this is what happens for me:

 JT> [C:\WP\DATA\SKYLAR]dir /r
 JT> SYS1003: The syntax of the command is incorrect.

 JT> What gives?  Does "dir /r" work or not?

Do a DIR /? in an OS/2 screen and you will see that /R is there. But
notice what is says; this DIR /R switch is valid in a DOS VDM only.

But it will show the LFNs, such as "Maintenance Desktop" in that DOS
box.

Regards,

Stu Davis


... Live, from Dania, FL
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