From: "Wojciech Galazka" <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: Current Directory Switches to Short Format on NT
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:51:11 +0100
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George Snyder wrote
>> ...
>
>I wrote a trivial program which prints the result of getcwd(), built with
MS
>Dev Studio 6.0, and added it to the previous example.  The first call
returns
>the long directory path as expected; the call after "ls.exe" returns the
>short form:

You can find the answer to your question by examinig how getcwd() was
implemented in msvcrtXX.dll (the source codes are provided)
Basically Windows doesn't try to make any difference between short and long
file nanes as both are perfectly legal.

Ask Microsoft to patch ntvdm.exe where the 'lack of differences' resides
to always store current directory name in long filename format.
(When asking point out on some DPMI problems that need to be fixed as well
:)