Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:37:35 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Long file name utility?
I'm coming to this late - but is the situation that windows won't boot, but other files are required? It seems to me that in this case the easy way would be to stuff the disk in a desktop as a second disk - not the boot disk. I know this has been my battle cry of many moons now :) but the desktop windows system will be able to see the long file structures and long file names. Zip and replace as required. There's a subtle and not-well-documented problem that can occur with lfns on w95 - and I assume later version. micros~1 labels are apparently allocated in serial order as the files are created. Suppose you have three files created in order with the names micros~1, micros~2 and micros~3, and then the file micros~2 is erased. On the source, we have micros~1 and ~3, and if we copy them with xcopy (with appropriate switches - i forget), the destination will list them as micros~1 and ~2. Which is fine...provided you don't have any shortcuts to ~3...cos now it's gone, it's broken. Damn! >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. > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
