short-filenames

What's the advantage of having an 8-letter process?

If you run Sticky Note in Windows 7,its process, is called StikyNot.exe. Several other Windows processes keep their process names under 8 letters. Why do they do that? What is the advantage? Are they just clinging to the past? Or should everybody be publishing 8-letter executables? ...

How to convert file name with path to short file name (DOS style) in Adobe AIR?

How to convert file name with path to short file name (DOS style) in Adobe AIR? For example convert next path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Resources\Adobe AIR Updater.exe" to "C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\ADOBEA~1\VERSIONS\1.0\RESOUR~1\ADOBEA~1.EXE" Is there any algorithm? ...