Long Filename and "/" not working in XP

[EmeraldOracle]

ok Here is the cituation. I had this .bat file that I used to zip up some file and automatically add the date to the end of the file name:

example:
backup 01-20-2000.zip
backup 01-21-2000.zip
backup 01-22-2000.zip
etc......

It works great under windows98 but when I tried it under XP it had problems.

Here is the bat file:
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:: gdate.bat (GetDATE)
@ECHO off
SET gdate1=
ECHO SET date=%%3>%temp%.\%%gdate1%%.bat
DIR/A-D/-W/L/-P %temp% | FIND "%%gdate1%%" >%temp%.\%%gdate2%%.bat
SET gdate1=%temp%.\%%gdate1%%
CALL %temp%.\%%gdate2%%.bat
SET gdate1=
DEL %temp%.\%%gdate?%%.bat

pkzip "c:\temp\backup %date%.zip" c:\backup\*.*
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When I try it in XP I get the error : can't create "backup 1/20/2000.zip"

This happens in XP for two reasons I discovered.

1. when using pkzip it truncates everything to 8 characters, even the files that it is compressing,

example:
when I wanted to zip a file called: "Verylongfilename.zip" it auto-truncated it to Verylong.zip


2. It doesn't like the "/" says its not a valid character (in win98 it auto-changed it to "-" and worked fine)

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There was also a error I got (but couldn't replicate later) that it didn't like that in the bat file there was this value:

%%gdate1%%

If I shortened it to under 8 Characters it went through fine.

who know why it doesn't give me that problem now.

Anyways need help figuring this one out.

:disgust:

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

you can't have a "/" in a filename.

 

[EmeraldOracle]

<< you can't have a "/" in a filename. >>



I know..... In Win98 it automatically changed it from "backup 1/1/2000.zip" to "backup 1-1-2000.zip"

with the "-" it works fine.....

 

[her209]

a '/' char means a directory

 

[Haden]

You can go to Regional And Language settings and change date format to xxxx-xx-xx (- instead of /).

 

[EmeraldOracle]

Thanks I'll Try that.....



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OK I also solved the problem with pkziping with a different version of PKZIP.exe Its still v2.50 but this version was for win95/NT and support long file names.

32bit Version of Pkzip.exe

With this version and Changing the Global setting seems to have corrected all the problems.