Displaying Shortname Tails

When the DOS window reads a Windows 95/NT-style long file name, it truncates the long name into DOS format (that is, an eight-character file name followed by a three-character extension) and adds a number to the file (such as ~1); this number is called a shortname tail. When reading long file names on extended drives in the Windows 95 DOS window or the Windows NT Command window, the window can only display shortname tails ending in the number 1; it cannot display ~2, ~3, and so on.

The term “DOS window” refers to the DOS shell window that you access from Windows 95 (called the Command Window in Windows NT. It does not refer to DOS windows running under OpenDOS 7.01.