Just wondering if anyone can help me out with a frustrating problem I'm having trying to get some old games to work in MS-DOS 6.22
I've burnt some ZIP files to a CD-ROM on my iMac and moved them over to the DOS machine with no problem and most of them open fine. However, some of the file names have spaces in them, which is obviously supported by Mac OS X but not DOS 6.22.
So for example DUKE NUKEM.zip comes up in the directory listing as DUKE NUK.ZIP
When I try to access this on the command line e.g. by typing
COPY DUKE NUK.ZIP C:\GAMES
It just reports too many parameters as it sees the SPACE as the end of the file name.
I have tried a number of work arounds such as
COPY "DUKE NUK.ZIP" C:\GAMES (which I think is a Windows 95 and onwards thing only)
and replacing the space with the black character ALT+0255.
Neither work. Any possible solutions? I know that DOS DEFRAG used to correct problematic file names but this is not possible on a read-only CD-ROM and I can't copy them to the hard drive. Even COPY *.* C:\GAMES does not work.
Thanks for any insights guys!
