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DANGEROUS PRE-95 DISK TOOLS
When your installation of Windows 95 took place, the new
MS DOS version 7.0 was also installed, and some of the
previous DOS command programs were renamed because they
cause problems with long file names. One of these was the
old ScanDisk program and another was Defrag. If you chose
to keep the old version of Windows on your machine,
rather than updating it with the new, the old commands
will still be available. But be aware that they can wipe
out the link between any regular file names (up to 8
characters, a dot, and up to 3 letters for the file
extension) and the new long names now available. That is
why Microsoft replaced or renamed these programs. Another
dangerous disk tool is the old Norton utility Directory
Sort, which also wasn't written to be able to sort long
file names. You can use a shareware utility called
LFNSORT (Long File Name Sort) that can be downloaded from
our BBS instead. This one will work both in DOS 7.0 and
previous versions.
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