From: bel@whipassgaming.com   
      
   >> Wild stuff. It's hard to believe that A) such a handy app was available   
   >> for Windows 95 and B) that MS removed it for future versions of the OS.   
   >   
   > It could have the short filename bug that's *very* common in Windows backup   
   > applications.   
   >   
   > Basically, the bug is that a program only backs up files using the long   
   > file names and doesn't save and restore the short file names.  Instead   
   > it relies on Windows to automatically generate a new short file name when the   
   > file is restored.   
   >   
   > For instance, "Microsoft Visual Studio" and "Microsoft Word" can produce   
   > MICROS~1.  If you have both of them, one will produce MICROS~1 and another   
   > produces MICROS~2--and the order that happens is depends on the order the   
   > files are created in.  If you back up and restore, and the system restores   
   > the files in the opposite order from how you created them, the short file   
   > names will go with the opposite files.   
   >   
   > Unfortunately, there are places within Windows that still use the short file   
   > names.  This can cause the restored system to fail in mysterious ways.   
      
   Oh man, that's right, I completely forgot about that. God, reminds me of   
   the file character limit back in OS9. Ugh.   
      
   Bel   
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