Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:48:38 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Mariano Alvarez =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez?= <malfer AT teleline DOT es>
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mariano Alvarez =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez?= wrote:

> This, your program output:
> ----
> C:\PROGDJ>pr1 longfilename1.txt
> `longfilename1.txt' -> `C:\PROGDJ\LONGFILE.TXT'
> 
> C:\PROGDJ>pr1 longfilename2.txt
> `longfilename2.txt' -> `C:\PROGDJ\LONGFILE.TXT'
> 
> And this, the output of my routine:
> ----
> C:\PROGDJ>lfngsfn longfilename1.txt
> Long:  longfilename1.txt
> Short: C:\PROGDJ\LONGFI~1.TXT
> 
> C:\PROGDJ>lfngsfn longfilename2.txt
> Long:  longfilename2.txt
> Short: C:\PROGDJ\LONGFI~2.TXT
> ----
> Do you see the difference?

Yes, you are right.  _truename uses a slightly different system call,
which is not what you want.

(On my system, numeric tails are disabled, so the results of both
programs are identical.  That's why I thought my method worked like
yours.)