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Mike C wrote:
> 
> Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
> 
> I have written a parser, which parses a source file and creates a
> destination file.
> 
> To operate the program, I select the source file in Windows explorer and
> drag it onto a shortcut to my program. This leaves the path to the source
> file in argv[1].  My problem is that the string that I find in argv[1] is
> all in DOS 8.3 format.  I would like to name the destination file the same
> as the source file, with a long filename, changing only the extension.
... snip ...

I think you are barking firmly up the wrong tree.  The point is
"why does the drag and drop leave a short file name".  There is no
need for your program to incorporate all sorts of non-standard and
non-portable code if you can solve that.  I hate mice and windoze,
so I don't have the answer.

You should be able to run your program from the command line by
simply giving it the appropriate argument.

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