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Re: Spaces in Paths

From: Linda W <cygwin at tlinx dot org>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Cc: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:59:16 -0800
Subject: Re: Spaces in Paths
References: <F76C9B2DA2FC4C4CA0A18E288BBCBCF71026EF2A@nihexchange24.nih.gov>

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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