>Last week I had an app to get installed that I KNEW every filename was only 8 >char (I'm really careful about that these days). So I run the setup wizard >and make the disks and take it down there. I'm installing and I get the same >message about only being able to use 8 char filenames and if I want to do that >use the /f on the run line to make it work. So I do. And install seems to >run fine. Then I look at the files and they've all still got the $ at the end >of the extension.

Sorry, what kind of viewer you have used for filenames checking ? A lot of viewers (and DOS ZIP itself) doesn't support long filenames. You must try Wndows-viewer or WinZip.
BTW, about $ at the end of extention - even the filename with >8 symbols will look pretty good in extention. You must check left part of filename.

Sergey Rewa
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