Right-click in the explorer window, go to 'new->text file' and name it 
'testte~1.txt'.  The first file's 8.3 name will magically change to 
testte~2.txt.

William Couture wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Note that there's a funny thing with this: the 8.3 name generated from the
>> LFN is not guaranteed to remain constant. Say you create a file
>> testtesttest.txt in an empty directory. Its SFN is now testte~1.txt. Now
>> create a file testte~1.txt -- this is possible. The SFN of the first file
>> is now testte~2.txt.
>>     
>
> OK, how do you create a file named "testte~1.txt" when testtesttest.txt
> already has a SFN of testte~1.txt?
>
> Bill
>
>   

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