Hi Geek:
Take a look at this and see if it helps.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000398.htm
I was surprised to find that COPY CON still works
in the DOS that lies under Win95.
If you want to work with Long File Names at the
DOS level, here are some tools:
http://sta.c64.org/lfnemu.html
My favorite is "Odi's LFN Tools".
Jerry