Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] DOS Install

Gail & Bryan Harries wrote:

> H.B.Shah,
> I was under the impression that DOS only uses an 8 character format...
>
> so would the directory name not be [My_Doc~1] or similar?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: heemanshu B Shah [mailto:hbshah1@...]
> Sent: Friday, 09 November, 2001 9:27 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] DOS Install
>
> Hi,
> Love Dos
> Well type cd C:\my documents
> copy filename c:\cnc
> cd\cnc
> pkunzip filename.zip
> thats all
> here filename is your zip file name and i assuem that
> C:\ is your parent directory
> or this can be done from windows explorer also go to
> my documents folder click on the file press ctrl and
> letter x simultaionusly and go to the cnc folder and
> press ctrl and letter v simultaionusly. Right click on
> the file and select unzip or double click unzip will
> start automatically.

In some DOS modes, and using standard 'internal' utilities like
copy, del, type, etc. it is actually passing the commands up into
the standard windows utility routines, so it WILL take long file
names, unless they have spaces in them, which breaks the
syntax structure. It will always take the short form, too.
External DOS utilities like pkunzip will NOT take the long file
names in general (although some late versions may have the
extra code to figure them out) and none will handle file names
with spaces, again. So, yes, most likely my_doc~1 (does it substitute
an "_" for spaces in the windows file name?) would be the directory
name. Anyway, you can test with the dir command, when you get
a file name that dir will list correctly, then you should be able to
use that name for all utility programs, and they should find the file.

Jon