Re: Distinguishing between a directory and a file

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"David Candy" <.> wrote:
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Convention tells to use a valid email address.

Convention has 4 lines for a signature. I count 4.

Count again; take your posting this time: 44 lines!

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2 Goodbye Web Diary
3 http://margokingston.typepad.com/harry_version_2/2005/12/thank_you_and_g.html#comments
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5 "Stefan Kanthak" <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message news:OQEXc0FUGHA.1444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
6 > "Dean Wells [MVP]" <dwells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
7 >
8 > [NTFSDisable8dot3NameCreation]
9 >
10 >> With Jerold's assistance, I found the recommendation ... it's an
11 >> interesting justification.
12 >
13 > Yeah, it's interesting, although not correct: most 16-bit applications
14 > still run here. The most typical error I encounter is "pathname to long"
15 > when they try to access %TEMP%.
16 >
17 > Interesting side note: Microsoft changed that in Windows XP (see MSKB
18 > 840214):
19 >
20 > CMD.EXE /K ECHO %TEMP% yields %UserProfile%\Local Settings\TEMP, while
21 > COMMAND.COM /K ECHO %TEMP% yields %Windir%\TEMP.
22 >
23 > Oh, and while you're there in COMMAND.COM: check the difference between
24 > ECHO %COMSPEC% and SET | FIND "COMSPEC".
25 > And then try SET COMSPEC=%COMSPEC% and wonder, why after that ECHO and
26 > SET show %COMSPEC%=%COMSPEC%.
27 >
28 >
29 > There's but another motivation: sort out crappy applications that can't
30 > handle pathnames with spaces. Fortunately the english versions of Windows
31 > have such pathnames in %ProgramFiles%, %UserProfile% and %TEMP%.
32 >
33 >> With that in mind, the use of short-names as
34 >> a solution to the "nul" directory detection method would be troublesome
35 >> at best ... thanks for the info.
36 >
37 > Correct.
38 >
39 > Stefan
40 >
41 > PS: Your sicknature is quite long!
42 > Would you mind to stop top posting. The netiquette recommends inline!
43 > And address munging is considered harmfull.
44 >


Stefan

BTW: Herzlichen Glueckwunsch zum Namenstag: heute ist Vollquottel!

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