Long filenames converted to short file names... how did this happen?

I've got a 256 meg Sandisk USB flash drive. At some point, all of the
files on it were converted to short file names. This is quite
inconvenient. I do not know when it occurred.

Anybody have any thoughts on how it occurred?

dos-man

dos-man wrote:
>
> I've got a 256 meg Sandisk USB flash drive. At some point, all of
> the files on it were converted to short file names. This is quite
> inconvenient. I do not know when it occurred.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts on how it occurred?

Probably you copied it with an old DOS version. Are you sure the
long names are gone - perhaps it is just what you are examining it
with. I know that the combination of W98 and 4DOS won't do this.

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