Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:48:52 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:37:14 -0500
> 
> > On DOS or on Windows?
> 
> Windows.

Yes, on DOS the program works as expected.

> > 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'.

It might be too late to use `getcwd' after you chdir, because Windows
has already updated its CDS structure with the long name.  Maybe it
would be better to convert the long name to a short one before calling
chdir in the first place, e.g. with Int 21h/AH=60, a.k.a. `_truename'
(just an idea).