[VoIP] OT - Console zip and unzip for Windows XP

[Martin Harriss]

Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>      Having recently migrated to XP from 98SE, I'm finding now that XP's DOS 
> mode apparently doesn't support long filenames. One place this bites me is 
> when using the old pkzip and pkunzip programs. They are getting, and having 
> to deal with, DOS 8.3 filenames. E.G. c:\downloads becomes c:\downlo~1. My 
> question is, is there any way to change this? Assuming not, are there any 
> good, preferably free, console-based zip and unzip programs? I looked at 
> Info-Zip, but couldn't really make sense of their directories, couldn't find 
> current Win32 binaries. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> Jayson

Jason,

I just fired up XP on my laptop -- if I bring up a command prompt window 
I see long filenames without any problem.  One guess would be that the 
pk(un)zip that you are using is somehow to blame -- I don't think 
there's any magic setting for XP to fix this.

Are you seeing this problem with any programs other than pkzip?

Martin