From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Can I "alias" gxx with g++ in DOS/DJGPP?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:45:00 +0300
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Endlisnis wrote:

>     Shouldn't it be possible to change the LFN for gxx.exe to
> g++.exe?  What I mean is that the 8.3 filename can be set to
> 'gxx.exe' and the other to 'g++.exe'.

I've searched and searched, but I couldn't find any way of pulling out
such a trick.  Windows doesn't give you any way of telling it just
what the short 8+3 alias should be.  When you rename a file with an
LFN-aware rename function, Windows recomputes and changes the short
alias as well.  And if you rename the short alias (with a non-LFN
rename function), the long name is nuked (more accurately, the short
name is copied to the long one).

If anybody finds a way to do this, please be sure to post here.  It
will allow to solve several annoying problems that currently have no
solutions.

> Are there any Win32 api calls
> to change the short-filename equivalent to a long-filename?

The only call that I know of lets you specify the numeric tail, but
that's all.