FIX: SourceSafe Might Not Get Long Filenames on Windows NT

ID: Q130140

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft SourceSafe for Windows NT, version 3.1

SYMPTOMS

SourceSafe might not retrieve long filenames correctly on a computer running Windows NT even if the long filenames option is checked from the GUI and the LONG_FILENAMES variable is added to one of the .INI files.

CAUSE

SourceSafe for Windows NT supports long filenames only if the drive is a mounted NTFS drive. Even though Windows NT FAT drives support long filenames, SourceSafe for Windows NT writes the file as an 8.3 filename.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
This bug was corrected in Visual SourceSafe version 4.0.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbSSafe400fix vbwin kbSSafe300bug
Version : 3.10
Platform : NT WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug