Dealing withLong file names in DOS

[robdesbois]

Originally Posted by Mac the Knife

Careful out there. The 8.3 filename is synthesised from the LFN on the fly (it isn't static and isn't stored). The value of ~N depends on what other files there are in the directory/folder.

Hence I said If there are multiple files in a folder with the same 6 characters prefix, N increments for each of them in alphabetical order.