Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:34:58 +0200
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:03:45 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> Here's an alternative patch which also seems to work on Win2K.  It allows
> you to use long directories without any problems I've observed.  It's a
> quick change to fixpath (which is called a bunch of places) to not call
> getcwd and use truename instead.

We cannot simply replace getcwd with _truename here: _truename returns
a UNC for directories on networked drives, and some DOS calls on some
supported systems, notably on plain DOS, don't support UNC's.

_fixpath uses getcwd precisely for this reason.