Does anybody have an idea what this message mean...?

[tuando]

Greetings,

When installing a program Matlab 5.1, I receive the following message dialog box:

"Severe is the title of the dialog box

Filenames which do not adhere to 8.3 naming cannot be read from this drive. You must update your CD-ROM device drivers before MATLAB may be installed."

Any idea what causing this problem and how to fix it?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Tuan

[jman01pa]

I am not gonna be any help. I am curious though. What is MATLAB?

Is this program on CD Rom and is it a copy? Sounds like a message I get sometimes from bad copies.

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[chipbgt]

MATLAB is a math geeks dream...and everyone elses nightmare http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I used it back at Georgia tech. I Couldnt tell you what the error message is though.

But is is an impressive program.

[OuTpaTienT]

The 8.3 naming format is how file names are stored using DOS.

For example:
FILENAME.TXT
12345678.123

I'd guess that either the program that's giving you that error need to be run under DOS, or possible you are using old, legecy (DOS based), CD ROM drivers.

[U-96]

I interpreted it the other way round... that he's already in DOS mode and the CD has filenames with more than 8 letters. It could be that you may need to disable the DOS CDROM driver in autoexec.bat and config.sys if you aren't deliberately working in DOS.
I also think there are ways of tweaking this from the drives device manager, but I'm on NT so I can't check at the moment.

U-96

[This message has been edited by U-96 (edited 12-06-1999).]

[jman01pa]

EEEEK!

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[OuTpaTienT]

U-96: Well, he seems to be getting a "dialog box" telling him the error. Usually don't get those in DOS (but I guess it is possible depending on if the OS or application is issuing the message.)

It seems to me that maybe he is running the install application through Windoze (thus allowing it to see long file names) and it's getting confused. If he boots to DOS and runs it, then all names should appear in the 8.3 format, right?

But, then why would there be any long file names on the CD? Hmmmm. My head hurts.

Give us more details please, tuando.