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FIX: SourceSafe Might Not Get Long Filenames on Windows NT

Article ID: 130140

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002

APPLIES TO

This article was previously published under Q130140

SYMPTOMS

SourceSafe might not retrieve long filenames correctly on a computer running Windows NT even if the long filenames option is checked from the GUI and the LONG_FILENAMES variable is added to one of the .INI files.

CAUSE

SourceSafe for Windows NT supports long filenames only if the drive is a mounted NTFS drive. Even though Windows NT FAT drives support long filenames, SourceSafe for Windows NT writes the file as an 8.3 filename.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This bug was corrected in Visual SourceSafe version 4.0.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbssafe400fix KB130140


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