| Date: | Sat, 15 Jan 2000 01:47:35 +0000 |
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| Reply-To: | John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: filenames on WinNT |
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| In-Reply-To: | <200001142358.XAA12353@minbari.netnames.net> |
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At 00:01 15/01/00 GMT, Lou Pogoda wrote:
>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".
Indeed - and that would presumably show up in the 'short-form' DOS DIR
listing as THISIS~1.LOG (but with the long name also there, at least in
Win95/98/2000)
>The office uses Win95, not NT, but I wouldn't expect the results to be
>*vastly* different.
That was my assumption, too, when I wrote my last emssage. I was really
talking about DOS generically.
Regards,
John
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