>Hello
>
>Using VFP3, I do the following to bring data that start in ER from C:\ windows directory to table Dirs.dbf
>
>!DIR C:\ER* /on /b > DIRS.TXT
>
>APPEND FROM DIRS.TXT TYPE SDF
>
>The problem is that command get only 8.3 file name where on long name I get filename~1.XXX instead of filenamethree.XXX.
>
>How can I work around this problem???

The obvious one would be to pull in an array of files using ADIR, and append that into the list, something like:

DECLARE aFiles[1,5]
aFiles=NULL
IF ADIR(aFiles,'C:\ER*') > 0
   APPEND FROM ARRAY aFiles
ENDIF