Also, even if you leave short name generation on, there's no guarantee that the sequence number part of the generated short name for "Program Files" will be ~1. It's very likely, but if "Program Files" is not the first directory created in the current directory starting with 'Progra', for example, Progra~1 may refer to that directory, or to none at all (if the directory that got ~1 has since been removed).
stephan(); -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linda W Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:59 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) Subject: Re: Spaces in Paths Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: > Changing > > program files >to > progra~1 >might also work. > --- It _might_, is true. But if you turn off short-filename generation on NT file systems to speed up NTFS performance and reduce the space needed for directory entries, it won't: ---- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001 ---- The only reason one might leave this enabled, is if one is running old programs that are not Win32 compatible. -l -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
