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	from William OConnell on Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:50:58 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: Long filenames / fopen / exe program / Windows 98
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> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:50:58 -0700 (PDT)
> From: William OConnell <william_peter_oconnell AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> I wrote a program in C++ using djgpp / Rhide.  This
> program uses the "fopen" statement to open a file for
> writing.  I supplied a long filename,
> "Field-Definition.txt".  This program worked fine when
> it ran under the Rhide program.  But when the compiled
> EXE program ran by itself, the filename was cut short
> to eight characters.  Is this a bug?  Why does this
> happen?  

Set LFN=y in the environment and then try again.