Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:50:54 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Bill Currie <bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Question: getcwd() and LongFileName support
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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Bill Currie wrote:

> Yeah, it's called command.com.  if you cd into a directory using the
> SFN, the Windows LFN getcwd function returns the SFN :(.  Actually,
> that's not *quite* true, it returns whatever you typed (cd StUdLy into
> studly would return StUdLy, IIRC).  Just another reason to hat M$ :)

This does not happen to me.  I can type the name of the directory as I 
like, and it always shows in the prompt as the long name and is returned 
by getcwd as a long name.

What version of Windows do you have?  Are you sure you use command.com 
from that version of Windows?