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echo: os2
to: Peter French
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 1999-11-01 02:06:01
subject: File Systems

 -=> Quoting Peter French to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE> That's nice. I'd like to be able to go one step farther and assign a
 LE> *specific* shortname to a file without losing the long name.

 PF> Would it help if you renamed the file in the traditional 8.3 way -
 PF> this would satisfy the DOS appls., then run the following REXX script
 PF> using the convention: PUTLONG myfil.ext "Long File Name"

Thanks, I'll try it. I hope it'll get along with Netware's OS/2 namespace.


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