Cannot Redirect with Long Folder Name in MS-DOS Prompt Session
Article ID: 180331
Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006
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This article was previously published under Q180331
SYMPTOMS
If you change folders to a folder with a long file name using quotation
marks (") to specify the long file name in an MS-DOS prompt session and
then attempt to redirect (>) a file in that folder to the printer port
(LPT1), you may receive the following error message:
File Creation Error
RESOLUTION
To work around this behavior, change folders to the folder with the long
file name by using the folder's short file name alias. For example, to
change to the C:\My Long File Folder folder, use the following command:
cd mylong~1
Then, use the redirect command. For example:
type myfile.fil > lpt1
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