Date:         Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:01:01 GMT
Reply-To:     Lou Pogoda <lpogoda@HOME.NOSPAM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Lou Pogoda <lpogoda@HOME.NOSPAM.COM>
Organization: @Home Network
Subject:      Re: filenames on WinNT

Well, I took a couple of minutes at lunch today and tried it out.

I put a very short SAS program into a file called 'this is a long file
name.sas' and tried to run it.

Issuing SAS THIS IS A LONG FILE NAME just got me a bunch of error messages.
Issuing SAS "THIS IS A LONG FILE NAME" ran the program.  And the resulting
log showed up in explorer as "this is a long file name.log".

The office uses Win95, not NT, but I wouldn't expect the results to be
*vastly* different.

John Whittington wrote in message
<3.0.1.32.20000114010328.00740478@pop3.powernet.co.uk>...
>At 00:31 14/01/00 GMT, Lou Pogoda wrote:
>
>>DOS may be "stupid" but it's not quite that stupid.
>
>Indeed
>
>>If you do a DIR, you'll see the file listed as THISIS~1.  But if you open
>>windows explorer and look at the file name there, you'll see it listed as
>>"this is a long file name" (without the quotes, of course).
>
>You don't even have to do that, actually. Using Don's filename, I create a
>diddy file, and herewith the DOS DIR listing:
>
> Volume in drive C has no label
> Volume Serial Number is 263B-15ED
> Directory of C:\temp3
>
>.              <DIR>        09/01/97  15:39 .
>..             <DIR>        09/01/97  15:39 ..
>HBSPHY~1 LOG            22  14/01/00   0:54 HBSPHYSQ211.LOG
>         1 file(s)             22 bytes
>         2 dir(s)     426,868,736 bytes free
>
>... the long filename is there as well as the truncated short one.
>
>>So, I'm guessing here (I'm at home and don't have SAS on this machine) but
a
>>couple of possibilities come to mind:
>>1.  The file really does have the name HBSPHYSQ211.LOG, it just doesn't
show
>>up that way on a DOS directory command
>
>That certainly is my suspicion.  The fact that it was being called
>HBSPHY~2.log strongly suggests that this is a 'short-form truncation' of a
>long filename of which DOS *is* aware.
>
>... that's how I se it, anyway!
>
>Regards,
>
>
>John
>
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