>I suppose this has been broken for years.
> I'd swear I'd used it recently.
> 
>    DIR  ABCD????.JPG    etc
> 
> no longer returns what you'd expect of olde time.

What does it do differently?

> And
> 
>        DIR   ABCD???3.JPG
> 
> returns files with abcdef~3.JPG short file names.

Well of course it does. That is, after all, the (a) name of the file.
 
> I suppose you can alter this behaviour somewhere but it's not yet 
> obvious (to me) how.

Actually, I don't think you can modify this behaviour.

Bob A


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