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to: RICCARDO GANZERLA
from: JUSSI HAMALAINEN
date: 1998-02-15 12:15:00
subject: 8.3 filename in file areas

 -=> 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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