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From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization: Materials Science Centre
To: DJGPP AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 14:29:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Windows 95
Message-ID: <213953A7646@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, A.Appleyard wrote:
> fopen(,) treats the filename e.g. `zxcvbnm' as `zxcvb', and `asdfghjkl.pcx'
> as `asdfghj.pcx'.I.e. something removes the last two characters before the
> dot <before> truncating the name to 8.3 characters. What does this? Does it
> always happen?
> 

  Eli Zaretski replied:-
> Please investigate more. This shouldn't be happening in v1.x ...

It doesn't happen under DOS 6, but it happened just now when a (program
compiled by djgpp v1 running on DOS 6) was run under Windows 95 on someone
else's PC who wanted a copy of the program.

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