ms-dos

[Darth Vodka]

ACK

how do i change into a directory over eight letters long?

thought it was [] or "" but no...

OR how do i find the MS-DOS name for it mydire~1 type thing?

 

[Darth Vodka]

oh hold on command.exe as opposed to cmd.exe

jeez

 

[Macky]

ACK

how do i change into a directory over eight letters long?

thought it was [] or "" but no...

OR how do i find the MS-DOS name for it mydire~1 type thing?

DOS doesn't restrict you to 8 chars for file or directory names.
It was the old filesystems like that did that.

 

[fludie]

Yeh XP allow any amount of chars now.

 

[Darth Vodka]

Yeh XP allow any amount of chars now.

that's what i thought

then i confussed myself by running the wrong command prompt

 

[Macky]

Yeh XP allow any amount of chars now.

Nothing to do with to do with XP it's down to the filesystem that the HD is formatted with.

 

[Durham Fox]

What FAT are you using?

 

[Nottingham Fox]

What FAT are you using?

Lard

 

[Steven]

What FAT are you using?

32?

 

[Darth Vodka]

What FAT are you using?

who me?

pass, i'm not an OS guru, just Access & Excel