Good Morning, I am running windows xp pro, and have more than once had trouble figuring out the true dos file name for a file. Example (program files) true dos name = progra~1. Is there a command or a setting to show the true dos file names? Thank You, WEWUse the /X parameter for DIR.  At the command prompt ENTER dir/? to show all parameters.

Good luckAny file name that has more than 8 characters will have a tilde' in it...

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This is handled this way because the DOS limitation was 8 characters....HEY Dusty, Thanks for the help, I had USED the dir/?, but didn't read it carefully enough, and missed it there. I tried it out and is exactly what i needed... Thank you for your help... WEWDOS filenames are the first six characters+~+numeral. Files or folders with similar names will be 1, 2 ,3 etc. Subfolders will sometimes have the same DOS name, for example Program Files and programfiles both reside in the root. The DOS names would be progra~1 and progra~2. If programfiles is a subdirectory of Program Files, it would be progra~1\progra~1.WEW - You're welcome, glad I could help.Dusty, you are a genius.  You to 2k.  Thank you also WEW.  I was ABLE to use your threaded discussion to copy my files in DOS.

Wonder why, if XP is so great, it can't just show you the DOS FileName like NT used to do in the properties window.  Oh well...

Thank you much!
djc3djc3 - thank you for the compliment but you've promoted me much too high.  I'm just a Mentor and fear that I will not GO much further up the rankings.

Now GX1_MAN, there's a Genius.