Dynamic Folder Renaming

[almostrice]

Hi guys,

I did some searches and could not find anything on this. I wondered if you guys know of any software that can handle folders with .dir extension. This mapped drive is to a VAX system

What I mean is the drive I have mapped to a Win 2000 system has .dir extension for all folders. And no I can not rename it to without .dir extention.
ex: d:\folder.dir\subfolder.dir

I have a program that needs to access this folder but can not handle the change with .dir extentions well. It prefers:
d:\folder\subfolder

Is there a configuration in Windows that can do this for me? or Is there a software package to handle this change seemlessly(as in dynamicly) for the existing software?

Thanks in Advance

 

[Nothinman]

Use software that doesn't suck, any non-idiotic piece of software should be able to use LFNs in Win2k with no problems.

 

[bsobel]

> Use software that doesn't suck

Strangely not usefull.

> Is there a configuration in Windows that can do this for me?

Almostrice, I'm trying to follow this. From what I got it's the VAX system accessing the NTFS share remotely which doesn't like the folders with extensions? Are these folder names static, and are their just a few or a whole bunch of them?

If there is just one, you can simply share that folder instead of what your sharing. If there are a number, you may be able to create a mirror directory structure and create hardlinks to the files you need the VAX to access see the faq for more info on hardlinks. Maybe a background task/batch file that loops thru and creates them. Could be a nightmare if the data keeps changing tho.

Bill

 

[Nothinman]

What I got is he's using something like Samba on the VAX to share some disks on it (or maybe vice-versa, if VAX has anyting like NFS/SMB natively) and the program can't deal with folders with .dir in them.

 

[almostrice]

Bsobel,

I read the article and I find it may fix a different problem i am facing. I have contacted some of my friends and they solved the .dir problem. I was able to modify some code to remove the .dir extension dynamicly when I needed the name of the directory.

The directory is actually a Vax Disk mapped to a Win 2000 system. I dont know what software was used though.

Thanks for the replies guys