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MKDIR DOCUMENT.S

Wonder if that would show the folder icon or think it is an asm file.

Think NT still has a flag where you can get that behavior for older applications if you need it. Think the prog fsutil lets you set it. Never had a need to do it though.




> Wonder if that would show the folder icon or think it is an asm file.

Oh, I'm sure it'd work fine, but I wanted "Documents" just because it looked nice.

I get LFNs now! Let's use them!

[5 min later]

Oh.

> Think NT still has a flag where you can get that behavior for older applications if you need it.

I am _fairly_ sure it's still there and on by default. Before Windows did tab-completion (badly), I used PROGRA~1 and so on as shorter-to-type versions. It was handy. I didn't have to think at all for those examples: they're burned into my muscle memory.

C:\PROGRA~1 MICROS~1 DOCUME~1

etc...


> Wonder if that would show the folder icon or think it is an asm file.

Oh, I'm sure it'd work fine, but I wanted "Documents" just because it looked nice.

«

I get LFNs now! Let's use them!

[5 min later]

Oh.

»

> Think NT still has a flag where you can get that behavior for older applications if you need it.

I am _fairly_ sure it's still there and on by default. Before Windows did tab-completion (badly), I used PROGRA~1 and so on as shorter-to-type versions. It was handy. I didn't have to think at all for those examples: they're burned into my muscle memory.

C:\PROGRA~1

MICROS~1

DOCUME~1

etc...




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