Sharon -
We are have the same problem! in fact I posted a message yesterday on
the same topic. IBM seems to have their head in the sand on this one!
What good is 8.3 in this day and age.

Yoohoo.. IBM.. Novell anyone home?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon Stidd [SMTP:sstidd AT CLOVER DOT NET]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 1997 11:44 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      FW: Long file names
>
> How does adsm handle long file names?  The adsm client code is running
> on NetWare, but the files that reside on the netware servers are from
> Win95 users.  Therefore they can use 32-char file names.  Adsm thinks
> it can only have the usual 8-char names as in DOS.  Is there an option
> to specify in the client options file?  My users are telling me that
> when they try to do a restore of a file with a long name, that adsm is
> truncating the filename and when the first several characters of
> different files are identical, it is hard to tell which file is which.
> Help!