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> 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 g

> 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...