On 2-3-2010 13:34, T T wrote:
best is to settle on long names consistently (i noticed some short name
issues a while ago)
This is not possible for two reasons:
1) there is still some old software breaking on long paths
occasionally (or rather on names with spaces); we struggled recently
with dviout but this is resolved now; I'm not aware of any other
cases, atm.
2) even if we ignore old programs, short paths are accepted thoughout
the Windows API and pop-up in various places from time to time (e.g.
%TEMP% var); moreover, paths specified in mixed short/long convention
are OK too and the only way to get a cannonical path on Windows is
through GetShortPathName (or it's twin GetLongPathName, but this one
is not nearly as useful)
isn't there a flag somewhere that makes env vars expand into long paths?
Hans
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