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Re: XP -- WOW! Partial 32bit name support?



At 11/11/2001 12:07 AM, you wrote:
It's the NT file system (NTFS), which
generates a unique 8.3 filename to make files with long filenames
(LFNs) accessible to DOS and 16-bit Windows apps. In your example,
"index.html" and "index~1.htm" are two names for the same file. The
file system keeps track of them "transparently".

Carl, the one thing I don't understand is why the .bak
file Xy4 creates really seems to be a non-expandable
"index~1.htm"