From: mad AT intersurf DOT com (Mike Demoulin)
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Subject: Re: What is the canonical way to find out if a file exists (in g++)?
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:22:12 +0200 (IST),
    Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
>If you are looking for a long file name on NT, DJGPP programs won't
>find it.  Try "dir /x" and look for the short 8+3 alias: that's all
>DJGPP programs are allowed to see on NT.

Is there a function to convert from an LFN to its 8+3 alias (without using
the dir/x)?