From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10110021335.AA03172@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Maybe fix deep path bug
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:35:05 -0500 (CDT)
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> > A simple change of order of operations to set the drive letter before
> > setting the directory seems to make the problem go away.
> 
> <Shiver>  I don't like such black magic, but I guess we don't have any
> better way.

I was pretty horrified when I figured it out.

> Please see that this change does the right thing when the drive letter
> is invalid (non-existent drive).

Yes, I tested this and it does the right thing (ENOENT) at least on
Windows 2000.  I need to build several test exes and test on DOS, W9x, NT
2K and XP. (with and without lfn ...)