RE: Finding short file names?

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umm, then again you can use windows search and in the are called
"all or part of the file name" type in

*.* (file extenson) for e.g. *.* txt

this a wild card this will bring all the text files, if know the path just
look in that folder

"mevian" wrote:

> Thanks for your quick response! But I guess I didn't make myself clear.
>
> I know the "long" file name, I even know where it is. It's a txt file in a
> folder in My Documents. But I need to use its DOS path\name to tell a DOS
> program to use it.
>
> In Win98, the file properties box used to give me the DOS path. But that
> item is not there in WinXP.
>
> I guess I could give the file an 8-char name and put it in the root directory.
>
> "WarOfGenesis" wrote:
>
> > use the find command
> >
> > FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]
> >
> > /V Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.
> > /C Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
> > /N Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.
> > /I Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
> > "string" Specifies the text string to find.
> > [drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files to search
> >
> > For example
> >
> > find "hope" *.txt
> >
> > This would search for any text file (.txt) that contains the text hope in
> > the current directory.
> >
> > "mevian" wrote:
> >
> > > How do I find the DOS file name of one of my files? In Win98, I could find
> > > this in the file properties box.
.

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