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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 09:25:48 +0000
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Subject: Re: fixpath problem in Novell drives.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote: 
> On Mon, 4 May 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > > I believe that if you use `stat' this way, you won't need to mess with 
> > > `_truename' and `_fixpath' at all.
> >  
> > Ok, I'll see if I can use it, but the user will have a fake name in
> > the top of the window.
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand this.  Which fake name are you talking
> about?

Suppose the user enters it in the save window: c:\long_name.txtt
and I'm in a non LFN system, when I pass it to fopen it works OK and creates a 
file long_nam.txt. The user sees in the window caption the fake name (the one 
he specified). 
It produced a bad side effect in the editor: If the user then opens 
long_nam.txt the editor is fooled and opens it (is dangerous in my editor open 
the same file twice).
To avoid it I was using first _truename getting: C:\LONG_NAM.TXT and to avoid 
the ugly dosish name I was passing it to fixpath, getting c:/long_nam.txt.
In this way:

1) The user have the real name of the file as name for the window.
2) The user can't easilly fool the editor.

Currently I'm thinking about having 2 names, one the name entered by the user 
and the second name the truename.

SET

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