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From: "Chris January" <chris@atomice.net>
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Subject: Re: Accessing filenames with different charsets
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:24:44 +0100
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> > What about filenames longer than MAX_PATH? Those can only be accessed
with
> > "\\.\<path>" and unicode file functions...
> >
> What is "\\.\<path>"?  Doesn't work for me:
>
> dir \\.\
> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
OT, but try this instead:
dir \\.\c:\

Chris



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