I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by the_mitsuhiko on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:24AM (#29188112)

There is no guarantee that the short name has that. In fact on a lot of German Windows installations it was PROGRA~2.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by 323 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:25AM (#29188122)

Well, on my disk PROGRA~1 is "Program Files" and PROGRA~2 is "Program Files (x86)", so still works :)

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by floatingatoll on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:34AM (#29188208)

That order is not guaranteed consistent across installations, however.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by marginalia_nu on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:06AM (#29188589)

I wonder if code to this effect has ever been written before

  for (int i = 1; i < INT_MAX; i++) {
    if (dirExists("C:\\PROGRA~%d\\ProgramName", i)) {

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by gmfawcett on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:28AM (#29188883)

And that, children, is when marginalia_nu unlocked the seventh circle of the inferno. Tomorrow we'll read the story of how our new demon overlords forced us all back to Windows 3.1.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by jagged-chisel on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:00AM (#29189379)

Win 3.1? on DOS 6.22? Actually, this sounds like heaven. Just don't put it on the public 'tubes.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by floatingatoll on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:21AM (#29189686)

Or do. Can’t hack a Mac Classic web server!

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by marginalia_nu on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:48PM (#29191499)

Got to tweak HIMEM.SYS before the slumbering one can be awakened.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by aksss on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:09PM (#29194879)

PEEK and POKE could break the HIMEM.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by floatingatoll on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:21AM (#29189676)

For whatever it’s worth, this is a terrible idea, for so many different reasons:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100107184218/http://blogs.msdn...

And so, yes, I’m certain someone must have done it, because it’s clearly bad idea jeans and so Murphy’s Law says it must exist.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by benibela on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:18PM (#29195652)

Can that work for i > 9 ?

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by floatingatoll on Friday November 12, 2021 @04:36AM (#29197648)

If you mkdir PROGRA~10, yes!

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by TowerTall on Saturday November 13, 2021 @11:02PM (#29215275)

And on mine (Windows 11) "PROGRA~3" is "ProgramData"

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