Re: Tilde in file names

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

> But neither XyWrite for DOS nor XyWin can read C:\PROGRA~1 correctly.

> If you type DIR c:\PROGRA~1 on the
> command line, you get a "listing"--with no files listed. If you do DIR
> C:\PROGRA~1\*.* or even C:\PROGRA~1\mqsa (mqsa being the full name of one
> of my subfolders there), you get "File not found."
>     But other directories (ones created by the user) with long file names,
> whose DOS names contain tildes, can be read and listed correctly

It seems you overlooked my post from a week or so ago, which mentioned that I can
do a DIR from 4.018 (running under OS/2 at least -- haven't tried this under NT)
of
I:\PROGRA~1  or  even of I:\PROGRA~1\CLEANS~1 (the CleanSweep program's
directory), and see listed all the files therein.

Jordan