Re: Short file names

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> 1. Anybody recall how to restrict Win 95 to short file names?

Double click the System icon in Control Panel,
click the Performance tab, click the File System button,
click the Troubleshooting tab.
There is an option there.
But that will permanently damage Win95, you will get all kinds of errors,
and you will not be able to restore it.

I don't see why do you want to use the short file name
feature.

> If the code detects that the system supports only short file names, the
> code
> will use file names of the form

No such system, except Win311 and VB doesn't run in Win311,
nobody uses Win311 any more.





"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ok, I may have gone a bit nuts, but I've decided to add code to a
> particular
> app to allow either long or short file names.
>
> If the code detects that the system allows long file names, the code will
> use names of the form
>
> whatever.Pizza.txt
>
> If the code detects that the system supports only short file names, the
> code
> will use file names of the form
>
> shorterx.txt
>
> Of course, life would be simpler if I would always just use short file
> names, heck, why make things simple?
>
> I can force the code to take the code paths that process short file names,
> but I'd feel better if I could do so on a system that restricted support
> to
> short file names.
>
> I have an old Win 95 (not OSR2) system.
>
> I seem to recall that there was a way to force Win 95 to accept only short
> file names.
> So, I've got three questions:
>
> 1. Anybody recall how to restrict Win 95 to short file names?
> 2. If I use such a setting, is it going to mess up extant registry, etc.
> file name references?
> 3. The Win 95 system has only 16MB. I can run VB 6 created EXE files.
> Could
> I install VB 6 on such a system?
> I have VB 6 Enterprise, but might have an old VB 6 Pro CD-ROM sitting
> around. Performance might be awful, but we nuts have to live with that.
>
>
>
>
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> http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
>
>


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