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Long File Names
Name: Stacey Date: October 13, 1999 at 19:57:09 Pacific
Comment:
Every once in a while I need to burn a CD on my PC burner. The files are created on the Mac and have long file names. When I bring these into explorer, it cuts off the names into the 8.3 format. How do I go about preserving the Mac file names?
Name: who cares? Date: December 10, 1999 at 12:43:47 Pacific
Reply:
what windows setting(s) and os are you using?
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Response Number 2
Name: Pradeep B Kole Date: July 17, 2000 at 00:33:01 Pacific
Reply:
I also having problem that when I am using explorer in win95 the files showing in 8.3 format e.g. chitragupt.exe is seeing as chitra~1.exe. How can I solve this problem?
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Response Number 3
Name: Rick Lee Date: January 5, 2001 at 20:32:36 Pacific
Reply:
Does anyone know of a good CD Burner program that supports real long names (i.e. longer than 33 characters) that can be used in Windows 98?
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