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Article #171864Re: Changing PROGRA~2 back to PROGRA~1
From: Jerry L. Gubka
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 21:57
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 21:57
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Loren Brookes wrote: > > I did areally stupid thing... I changed 'Program Files' to 'Progra~1' > when trying find out why the DOS search program I was writing, would not > recogonize the the directory. When I changed it back to 'Program files', > the DOS name changed to 'Progra~2' :< > > How do I change it back again ??? > > Please help. > > Thankyou. > > -- > Loren Brookes > wbrook@xtra.co.nz I had this problem a couple of weeks ago (unknown cause ... but probably twiddling with something I shouldn't have been, like you ;-} ). I just used file manager to rename "Program Files" to "Programs" and then renamed it back to "Program Files". Cleared it right up. Live long, and prosper Jerry L. Gubka
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news-archive.icm.edu.pl!pingwin.icm.edu.pl!news.icm.edu.pl!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news2.acs.oakland.edu!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!news From: "Jerry L. Gubka" <jlguru@cris.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95,alt.windows95,demon.ip.support.win95,microsoft.public.win95,microsoft.public.win95.msdosapps,microsoft.public.win95.setup,pl.comp.os.win95 Subject: Re: Changing PROGRA~2 back to PROGRA~1 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 15:57:06 -0600 Organization: Mine Reserves Associates Lines: 24 Message-ID: <33AD9FB2.52124D3@cris.com> References: <33AD0DB8.417DC62D@xtra.co.nz> Reply-To: jlguru@cris.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ts017d18.den-co.concentric.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) To: Loren Brookes <wbrook@xtra.co.nz> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit