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An 8.3 filename (also called a short filename or SFN) is one that obeys the filename convention used by CP/M and old versions of DOS and versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5. It is also used in modern Microsoft operating systems as an alternate filename to the long filename, to provide compatibility with legacy ...
For backwards-compatibility with MS-DOS and older Windows software, which recognizes filenames of a maximum of 11 characters in length with 8.3 format (i.e.: an eight-letter filename, a dot and a three-letter extension, such as autoexec.bat), files with LFNs get stored on disk in 8.3 format (longfilename.txt becoming longfi~1.txt), with the ...
I'll agree with the discussion above that a simple title of "8.3" is vague. According to the MSDN documentation this is called a "8.3 file name" (spaces are intentional—although I could swing towards "filename" for constancy within Wikipedia). Could we agree to move it to either 8.3 file name or 8.3 filename? +mwtoews 17:38, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Screenshot of a Windows command shell showing filenames in a directory Filename list, with long filenames containing comma and space characters as they appear in a software display. A filename or file name is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file in a file system. Different file systems impose different restrictions on filename lengths.
Long filename (LFN) support is Microsoft's backward-compatible extension of the 8.3 filename (short filename) naming scheme used in MS-DOS.Long filenames can be more descriptive, including longer filename extensions such as .jpeg, .tiff, and .html that are common on other operating systems, rather than specialized shortened names such as .jpg, .tif, or .htm.
Level 1: 8.3, Level 2 & 3: ~ 180 Depends on Level [cr] ... 32,767 characters with each path component (directory or filename) up to 255 characters long ...
This portion of the filename is known as the filename extension. For example, HTML documents are identified by names that end with .html (or .htm), and GIF images by .gif. In the original FAT file system, file names were limited to an eight-character identifier and a three-character extension, known as an 8.3 filename. There are a limited ...
The FAT file system for DOS and Windows stores file names as an 8-character name and a three-character extension. The period character is not stored. The High Performance File System (HPFS), used in Microsoft and IBM's OS/2 stores the file name as a single string, with the "." character as just another character in the file name.