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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 app

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.

lproven 3y ago
> 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...
- lproven 3y ago
  > 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...