Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:19:45 +0000 From: T i m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Long file name utility?
Hi Guys, This place might be of interest .. http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/msdos.htm T i m (Nearly a 50CT owner ..looking for 12V lead?) Casey Karp wrote: > 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. > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives > http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
