Long name to short name conversion

Long name to short name conversion

[Kiran Kumar]

I have an installation CD. All files/directories inside the CD are of
short names (8.3). It also has install batch file, which installs some
files into system. Unfortunately, the batch file is written in such a
way that, it looks for a specific file whose path is of long names.
So, system could not find the respective file and installation failed.

Is there any way to convert short names into respective long names? 

I could see only converting long file name to short names (8.3) using
xcopy /T /E. But how to re-convert to long names�. Any ideas??

Regards.

Re: Long name to short name conversion

[tmoran]

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> I have an installation CD. All files/directories inside the CD are of
> short names (8.3). It also has install batch file, which installs some
> files into system. Unfortunately, the batch file is written in such a
> way that, it looks for a specific file whose path is of long names.
  So the install batch file was not written to work with this CD, right?
Can you find an install file that *is* intended to work with the CD?

> xcopy /T /E. But how to re-convert to long names�. Any ideas??
  In general, there's no way to know which of
this is a long name
this is a longer name
was converted to which of
thisis~1
thisis~2
Is there something internal to the CD files that would tell the name (for
instance, are they Ada source files and you could run gnatchop on them)?
Or are there no *~2 files, so the first six characters are unique and you
could manually match the 8.3 names against the names expected by the bat
file?  If so, you could modify the bat file (since you can't change the
names on the CD).