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> From: "Mike C" <My DOT address AT end DOT of DOT post>
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:02:31 GMT
> 
> The problem is that if the source is
> 
> d:\windows folder1\windows folder2\File with a long name.log
> 
> then the target file is
> 
> d:\window~1\window~2\File w~1.Prs

This is a misfeature of Windows: when a file is dropped on a DOS
program, it gets a short 8+3 alias of the long file name.

To work around that, use the subfunction of Int 21h function 7160h
that returns a long variant of the 8+3 short file name.