Obtaining short DOS file names?
Paul Stodghill
stodghil@cs.cornell.edu
Wed May 31 13:23:00 GMT 2000
Chris wrote,
> There is no cygwin-specific way of getting the short file
> name. The concept
> has no meaning on UNIX. There are Windows programs available
> which do this.
> 'dir' is one of them, for instance.
Gotcha. I can hack something up from this.
> Is there some reason why quoting the filename doesn't work?
It would, but it will take me a while to track down all of the places that
the scripts are broken. I'm looking for something quick and dirty to get
going.
Thanks.
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