Wrong short filenames instead of long ones

Ove Kaaven ovek at arcticnet.no
Fri Feb 6 08:12:25 CST 2004


fre, 06.02.2004 kl. 13.16 skrev Fabian Cenedese:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to find a file copy tool which works on windows as well as wine.
> I tried several and this looked promising:
> 
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/fileutil/cc108dos.zip
> 
> On Windows it copied all files without problems and kept the long filenames
> even if the name implies that it's DOS-only, but it worked fine on W2K.
> But on wine the long names where all shortened to something like
> CINO~E2H.CPP. So it doesn't look like normal DOS short names ...~1.cpp
> but it's not the long name either. Can anybody try this out?

It's the short names Wine makes when there is no DOS short name (i.e.
when you're not on a VFAT partition).

> My wine (actual cvs) config is set to windows version nt40.

Try win95. Wine currently only emulates the DOS long file name API on
win9x, since it did not exist on nt4.





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