-=> Quoting Riccardo Ganzerla to All <=-
RG> I'm mirroring various ftp-sites for keeping my filebase up to date,
RG> and many of these sites, of course, have names not 8.3 compliant. Also
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RG> they are not diasplayed correctly at filelist prompt and BAD: they
RG> cannot be downloaded at all.
RG> Are there Mex programs that patch this wrong behavior?? Will there be
RG> a fix for that??
The only thing I can think of is to use some gadget to change the long
filenames the way VFAT does it. long_file_name.ext -> long_f~1.txt.
I think this can be easily accomplished with a 4DOS batch file.
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