DOS short names

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DOS short names

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Pardon me if this has already been answered elsewhere, but I recently
installed 1.3 on Windows NT (using Website 1.1f) and upon searching the
newly created DB I get the comment that:

Request cannot be handled by the server.
Reason: DOS "short" names not allowed. Use the real name.

I think it refers to webina~1.exe when it wants webinator.exe.

If anyone else is using Webinator successfully on this platform and has
solved this problem, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Thanks, in advance.

Bruce



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DOS short names

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You can rename the executable to be webinato.exe, and it should then
generate a URL that works.
Are you by chance using Website Professional from O'Reilly?

You can also search the Webinator mailing list archive.
Going to:
http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/webinator/listproc/
and searching for:
dos short names
would also have answered the question.