From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: What is the canonical way to find out if a file exists (in g++)?
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 03:24:23 +0200
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Mike Demoulin wrote:

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

There is such a function, but only on Windows 9X.  On NT, DOS programs aren't
even allowed to know that the long names exist.