From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:37:14 -0500
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Subject: Re: Bash problem with SFN
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> On DOS or on Windows?

Windows.

> How does it avoid this?  Did you succeed to understand why does this
> problem happen?  If so, perhaps you could explain what causes it.

I avoid it by retrieving the current directory with getcwd so 'longlonglong' 
turns into 'longlong'. So a 'cd dir' changes the working directory to 
'/foo/longlong/dir' instead of '/foo/longlonglong/dir'.

Mark