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You all have valid points but it would still be better to use the windows generated names if avilable IMHO

huh? you can't say xp is doing that wrong... or you want the short names to be numbered by names, so they might change if you create another file? DOSBox has the bug in there. in other platforms you have no choice but in windows it really should be based on the short names windows provides. …

I've found a bug in Dosbox 0.63 It assings worng names for my long named directories. My guess is that windows create the short names in the order that they were created, e.g. However it appears like DOSBox is creating the short names itself (instead of using the operating system's name), probably …