Hi Guys, Type in c:\dir /x under Win2k and get the 8.3 munged filename!! Dan -- Dan Braun - PegaSoft Canada / CityTV danb.nospam-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org -----Original Message----- From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug at ss.org] On Behalf Of Chris Aitken Taavi Burns wrote: It's moot, but I think it was the Windows 95 version of DOS, which stored long filenames with the 8.3 convention. So whateverfile.txt is stored in W95 DOS as whatev~1.txt Chris -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml