Spaces in Paths

[Stephan Mueller]

Also, even if you leave short name generation on, there's no guarantee
that the sequence number part of the generated short name for "Program
Files" will be ~1.  It's very likely, but if "Program Files" is not the
first directory created in the current directory starting with 'Progra',
for example, Progra~1 may refer to that directory, or to none at all (if
the directory that got ~1 has since been removed).

stephan();


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Linda W
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:59 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
Subject: Re: Spaces in Paths



Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:

> Changing
>
>	program files
>to
>	progra~1
>might also work. 
>
---
    It  _might_, is true.  But if you turn off short-filename
generation on NT file systems to speed up NTFS performance and
reduce the space needed for directory entries, it won't:
----
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001
----

The only reason one might leave this enabled, is if one is
running old programs that are not Win32 compatible.

-l



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