Number 209 - October 2000

Long Filenames on Floppies
by Mark West, Tokyo PC User's Group (www.tokyopc.org)
Have you ever copied a file to a floppy with a long file name? Do you remember your surprise and frustration when you found out that the name was changed to the 8.3 naming convention? MSDos strikes again! Well I have found away around this little aggravation--ZIP it. You zip the file or files that you want to transport via floppy disk. Zipping a file is easy with 9X and Winzip.     Open Explorer and find the appropriate file/s. If you are selecting more than one file hold down the Ctrl key and select the files with the left mouse button. Next	release the Ctrl key if you had multiple files and press the right mouse button. A menu will pop up with one of the selections being Add to ZIP, select this option. A requester will pop up asking you if this is the file name and place where you want to create your new ZIP file. You can change any of this by typing in different options. Copy your new zip file to the floppy and you are ready to go. When you unzip the files on the new computer, the long file name will be intact. No "~?" complicating your file name. I wonder who thought of that annoyance any way?
Number 209 - October 2000