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Topic: Windows filenames? (Read 1541 times)
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onpon4
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This is just an interest question.
Is anyone here familiar with how file names are handled in Windows?
What I know is that, with current Windows versions, it is possible to use the 8.3 file format to reference a file. Before, I assumed that this is just a conversion of the normal file name. But my school's programming, desktop publishing, digital imaging, and robotics teacher (I suppose you could call him the "computers" teacher) seemed to imply earlier that their machines (which run Windows XP Professional) actually uses the 8.3 format, with a conversion applied to get it to the "normal" file name.
I'm asking because I was always under the impression that the 8.3 format was abandoned after the FAT16 file system.
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Draxas
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I'm pretty sure it was abandoned with Win NT, yeah. I know for sure that they tossed many of the more useless DOS conventions out the window (har!) when they made that and XP (as well as not basing them on the DOS code, unlike Win 95/98).
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