From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A funny in windows 95
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 18:28:33 -0400
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Anthony Appleyard wrote:
> 
> In assembling pathnames it is easy to forget that root level directory names
> end in a \, e.g. C:\ , and so to make up a pathname containing two consecutive
> \ characters, e.g. C:\\MYFILE.TXT . I have found the hard way that if you call
> `AX=0x7160, CX=2 (or 0x8002), int21' to find the longname given the shortname,
> if the shortname starts with a drive letter, colon, and TWO \ as above, that
> interrupt call takes <<several seconds>> to run even on a very fast new PC,
> instead of quickly faulting and exiting.

I suppose it's possible that Win95's file system is trying to interpret
that filename as a network redirector?

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