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Old December 10th 11, 02:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
philo[_35_]
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Default Long filename error

On 12/10/2011 07:56 AM, Axel Berger wrote:
Scandisk for DOS, when started automatically on booting, reports a long
filename error on the system partition and tells me to run Scandisk in
Windows. The latter tells me no errors found.

I wouldn't mind, but Scandisk stops at the error and waits for a key to
be pressed. This means I can't go and make coffee and come back with
booting finished and the restart after a power outage won't work.

Scandisk does not tell me which file is wrong and looking over a DIR
listing nothing struck the eye - of course it's far to long to read line
by line. I'm prety sure I can repair the problem manually, but I first
need to find the culprit file. Any ideas how to do that?

Danke
Axel




Dos has a limitation as to the number of characters a file can be.

Either rename the file with a shorter name
or just run scandisk from Windows if you ever need to again