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> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:57:24 GMT
> 
> I think you are barking firmly up the wrong tree.  The point is
> "why does the drag and drop leave a short file name".  There is no
> need for your program to incorporate all sorts of non-standard and
> non-portable code if you can solve that.

Drag-n-drop produces a short 8+3 file name due to a Windows
misfeature: it always does that when a file is dropped on a DOS
program.

AFAIK, there's no solution for this misfeature except reconstruct the
long file name the way the OP wanted and Brian's code did.  So in this
case, it's definitely the right tree that's being barked up.