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From:	"Mike C" <My DOT address AT end DOT of DOT post>
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Subject:	Getting long file names from the 8.3 name passed from Windows
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Eli,

I tried to mail you this, but my mail came back, marked "Undeliverable"

I trawled Ralf Brown's list of interrupts today, but I didn't see anything
too hopeful. I had expected to see an interrupt to return the long filename,
given the file handle - something like that - but I didn't find anything
such.

As you seem to have been around that area, can you give me any pointers
please?
Do you have to run a findfirst using a paraphrase of the the 8.3 filename as
a source?

Many thanks,

Mike Collins.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: Long file name support


> > From: "Mike C" <My DOT address AT end DOT of DOT post>
> > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:02:31 GMT
> >
> > The problem is that if the source is
> >
> > d:\windows folder1\windows folder2\File with a long name.log
> >
> > then the target file is
> >
> > d:\window~1\window~2\File w~1.Prs
>
> This is a misfeature of Windows: when a file is dropped on a DOS
> program, it gets a short 8+3 alias of the long file name.
>
> To work around that, use the subfunction of Int 21h function 7160h
> that returns a long variant of the 8+3 short file name.



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