Date:	Fri, 27 May 94 18:11:07 JST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Truename [was: Library problems]

Just on the off chance, I tried "truename go32.exe" from my command
line, and it worked.  Surprised me a little, what with Alan's post not
being clear about whether it's documented or not.  'Specially since I
run 4DOS.  Then I tried 4DOS's help function, and it says:

"Truename sees through default directories, as well as the JOIN and
SUBST external commands, and reports the fully qualified pathname of a
file.

Truename requires MS-DOS or PC-DOS 3.0 or above, DR DOS or Novell DOS
6.0 or above, or OS/2 version 2.0 or above.  

Truename can handle simple drive substitutions such as those created
by JOIN, SUBST, or most network drive mappings.  However it may not be
able to correctly determine the true name if you use "nested" JOIN or
SUBST commands, or a network which does not report true names properly."

4DOS also provides a variable function @TRUENAME which can be used in
batch files, etc, but that's probably not relevant to this thread.

I don't know if truename does what Eric needs or not, but it looks
like a documented, will-be-there-tomorrow, function.

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