Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:10:09 -0800
From: Casey Karp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Long file name utility?
Witty, wise, weird, and wonderful, Matthew Hanson wrote at 01:36 PM 2/16/2002
>Well... this is an option, but it looks like a rather grueling method. In
>order to make an image of one subdirectory of C:\Windows\Application Data,
>I'd have to create a batch file with all of the root directories of C:\
>and C:\Windows\ with the -skip command at the beginning of each line.
"Grueling". Now there's a word you don't see spelled correctly very often
these days. <laughter> Agreed that it would be a pain in the rear; when I
need to do something like that, I tend to rely on "tree > tmp.txt" and a
text editor. Under Windows (if Windows is loadable), the easy solution is
to select the directories in question and use the "Send to clipboard as
name" command from the MS PowerToys.
>But I've already obliterated one partition with Ghost about a year
>ago. One wrong slip oon the command line.... and POOF! :<0
Yup. I've screwed up a couple of systems that way too.
>Good suggestion though. It is a possibility.
Later thought: don't Win95/98 come with a program for backing up long
filenames? Could you use that to back up the long names and then use
something like pkzip to back up the actual files?
C.
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