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Re: Short Filename Dilemma - Please read - I am going nuts!

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From: Saki
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00

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You need a utility called More Properties.    It will let you eliminate the
tilde as one of it's many system tweaks. 

Later,

Saki 

Cuzin B <cuzinb@intdirect.com> wrote in article
<MPG.e5b851957905150989684@news.cadvision.com>...
> Does anyone know how to get NT 4.0 to rid itself of the tilde (~) when 
> writing it's 8.3 filenames. 
> There was a cool registry edit for Win 95 titled NameNumericTail that 
> could be added under CurrentControl/FileSystem. This addition of one key 
> allows Win95 to write it's 8.3 names closer to what they really are: NT 
> 4.0 writes this text file title (This is a test) as Thisisa~.txt. I need 
> it as Thisisat.txt
> 
> I am trying to install a program from CD-ROM and the tilde included in 
> the filenames are screwing up this install in a big way.
> 
> Any help would be great!
> 
> Cuzin B
>

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From: "Saki " <mulder.8@osu.edu>
Subject: Re: Short Filename Dilemma - Please read - I am going nuts!
Date: 1997/08/14
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