Applications that want 8.3 names

[John E. Malmberg]

Richard Sharpe wrote:
 >
 >Is anyone aware of Windows applications that will only deal with 8.3 
 >namesand cannot deal with long file names?
 >
erx wrote:
> Most "setup.exe" programs are stubs that are 16-bit executables, and want 8.3
> filenames.

And some of the ones that can handle storing long filenames expect that 
when they extract the files, they will get the same 8.3 alias that they 
had originally, which does not happen because Microsoft has several 
different algorithms for generating the alias.

One of the installers in the Windows NT 4.0 Resource kit has this problem.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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