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- Integrity Master (and IMcheck) now will report and compare Windows 95
- (or Win 98) long file names. These are reported along with the standard
- (8.3 format) short file names for all files and directories (folders).
- If the long file name is identical to the short file (ignoring possible
- differences in upper and lower case), the long file name will not be
- reported.
-
-
- WHEN ARE LONG FILE NAMES AVAILABLE? -----------------------------------
- In order for the long file names to detected, IM must be run under the
- Windows 95 (or 98) Graphical User Interface (GUI) or in a DOS session
- under Windows 95. If you boot to native DOS without the Windows 95
- GUI, IM will still report the long file names for files that it has
- previously checked but will be unable to recognize the long file names
- on new files.
-
- While IM requires the Windows 95 Graphical User Interface (GUI) in order
- to get long file name information, you can boot boot to native DOS (even
- earlier version of DOS) and IM will still retain the long file name
- information in its integrity data files. THIS WAY YOU CAN BOOT YOUR PC
- FROM A DISKETTE AND STILL CHECK ALL YOUR FILES.
-
-
- HOW DOES IM COMPARE FILES?
- --------------------------
- All files have short (8.3) file names but only some files have long
- file names. IM will compare files based on the long file names whenever
- possible and will use the short file names when the file does not have
- a long file name.
-
- You can use SetupIM to control whether IM reads or compares long file
- names. Since long file names require extra space in the integrity data
- files and slow processing somewhat, you tell IM to ignore long file
- names. (Integrity Master can normally handle up 2,612 files per
- directory (folder) but use of long file names will reduce this limit
- somewhat.) You can also tell IM to base its comparisons entirely on
- short file names. Both of these settings can be changed by running
- SetupIM or clicking on the "1st" icon in Windows.
-
- When IM reports a file change it will include a line show the old and
- the new file status followed by a line indicating the long file name
- (if one exists) as you see below:
-
- ....Changed File OLD: MS-DOS~1 PIF 92BB 5D04 967 Jan-05-1998 14:20:48....
- .... File NEW: MS-DOS~1 PIF 92BB 5D04 967 Jan-06-1998 9:36:58....
- Long---> MS-DOS Prompt.pif
-
- If IM is reporting a file change but long file name information is not
- currently available (for example if you booted a version of DOS that
- doesn't support long file names) you will see the change report like this:
-
- ....Changed File OLD: MS-DOS~1 PIF 92BB 5D04 967 Jan-05-1998 14:20:48....
- Long---> MS-DOS Prompt.pif
- .... File NEW: MS-DOS~1 PIF 92BB 5D04 967 Jan-06-1998 9:36:58....
-
- This indicates that the "old" version of the file had a long file name
- but that the "new" version doesn't currently have a long file name available.
- In this situation IM, retains the long file name information for the file.
-
- IM reports long directory (folder) names in the same way that it reports
- long file names. The long directory name is displayed after the short name
- provided that the long name exists and is different (except for
- upper/lower case) than the short directory name.
-
-
- CHANGING DIRECTORIES
- --------------------
- When you tell IM to change directories with the "/P" Command line switch or
- the "DiRectory change" option of the IM "CoMmands" menu, you can specify
- either the short or the Win 95/98 long directory (folder) name.
-
-
- INITIALLY RECORDING LONG FILE NAMES:
- ------------------------------------
- Releases of Integrity Master prior to version four did not record long file
- names. If you are using version four for the first time, you do NOT need
- to run an IM "Initialize". IM will automatically record the long file names
- the very first time you do a check (even a "Quick update"). There's nothing
- special you need to do but IM will take slightly longer to run when it records
- the long file names for the first time.
-
- IM will also report changes in any directories when it records long file
- names for the first time. If you see IM reporting that there are changes
- in a directory but no changes are listed on the report, IM is probably recording
- long file name information in that directory.
-
-
- WINDOWS 95 HAS SOME BUGS
- ------------------------
- Windows 95 (and the Windows 98 beta version) will allow you to create a
- series of directories (folders) that will exceed certain internal limits
- (e.g. 64 characters for the short directory/folder names or 260
- characters for the combined long directory and file names). The
- effects of exceeding these limits may result in files or directories
- that are created but in some circumstances can NOT be accessed. Since
- only some operating system functions fail in some circumstances, there
- may be further odd problems associated with exceeding these limits. For
- example if you are in directory:
-
- C:\WINDOWS\APPLICAT.ION\MORESTUF\YETMORE.FIL\ANDMORE\FINAL
-
- and you now create directory "PROBLEM.DIR" this will create:
-
- C:\WINDOWS\APPLICAT.ION\MORESTUF\YETMORE.FIL\ANDMORE\FINAL\PROBLEM.DIR
-
- At this point you may have problems creating or accessing files or
- even changing to directory PROBLEM.DIR. Integrity Master will also
- alert you to these problems if they exist. If you are in such a situation
- you can get around the problem be shortening the names of one or
- more of the directories or (better) reorganizing your directories
- so that the combined length is not as long as you see above.
-
- One easy solution to the problem above would be take the "MORESTUF"
- directory and place it directly off the root directory:
-
- C:\MORESTUF\YETMORE.FIL\ANDMORE\FINAL\PROBLEM.DIR
-
- Now you can see that we are not exceeding the 64 character limit for the
- short directory names. You can run into the same problem with long
- directory names or with the short names that are associated with
- the long names. Unfortunately, it's often not clear whether it is
- the short names or the long names that are causing the problem.
-
- Integrity Master will generally detect the above problems and alert
- you if this problem exists (sometimes with a "Hardware fail" or "directory
- change" error message).
-
-
- COMPATIBILITY WITH PRIOR VERSIONS OF INTEGRITY MASTER
- -----------------------------------------------------
- Integrity Master version four can read integrity data files created
- by all older versions of Integrity Master. Integrity data files
- created by version four can ONLY be read by older versions of IM if no
- long file name information is recorded. If you don't use Windows 95 (or 98)
- or if you turn off recording long file name information (by using SetupIM),
- long file name information will not be kept and you can use older versions
- of Integrity Master with version four.
-