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First post, by Fj_

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Have two folders with long names of "Lost Vikings 2" and "Lost Vikings", that have corresponding short aliases of "LOSTVI~1" and "LOSTVI~2" in that very order due to the order of creation. However, dosbox ignores short alias stored in the filesystem and names these folders in the alphabetical i.e. reverse order. That causes some confusion when using D-FEND frontend that uses correct short names from the OS.

However the bug is easily bypassed by renaming folders in a specific order.

DOSBOX 0.63
Windows 2003 server (enterprise) SP1

Reply 3 of 8, by Qbix

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well it can be argued that if our names differ from the windows names that it's considered a bug

We never claim to use the ones windows uses.

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Reply 7 of 8, by barfoot

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HunterZ wrote:

How about just putting a warning and/or disclaimer about long filenames in the DOSBox readme?

Wait.. people read the readme file? I know I haven't been around these forums very long, but I got the feeling the biggest issue around here is that no one ever reads the readme.

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