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My thanks to one and all. There are several ideas here that seem to be
promising, especially the one from Brian Inglis.

The comment from Eli Zaretskii sounds as though it would probably work too,
though i am not familiar with the interrupt. Maybe I'll find it among Ralph
Brown's interrupts.

With the info I have, I'm sure to overcome the problem.

Thanks again,

MikeC



"Mike C" <My DOT address AT end DOT of DOT post> wrote in message
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> Folks,
>
> I have looked in the FAQ for this, but didn't find anything that described
> what I want - unless I completely misunderstood it.
>
> I have written a program that operates on a source text file, parses it,
and
> produces a target text file.
> Under Windows, I have made a shortcut to my program, and when I drag the
> source file from Windows Explorer, and drop it on the shortcut icon, the
> name of the source file, complete with its path, is passed to my program
in
> argc[1]. I change the extension and use the rest for the path and file
name
> for the target, so that it appears in the same directory as the source,
but
> with a different extension. It all works fine.
>
> 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
>
> The program is quite usable, but for the sake of elegance, I would like it
> to give the target file its full name.
>
> I saw the environmental variable, LFN=1, but that seems to be to make
DJGPP
> read long file names when compiling etc, not to make it compile my
programs
> with different features.
>
> Thanks,
>
> MikeC
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