> > Alberto Massari wrote: > > I guess Wine is converting the NULL into \?? to be able to store it as > > a string.
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > You guessed wrong. The leading \?? is there under both Wine and Windows > 2000, and in both cases there is ALSO a NULL. As neither Wine nor > Windows 2000 then accepts that as a valid path, I'll just remove it. I > was just wondering whether anyone knows why Windows 2000 puts that extra > stuff in (it's obvious why wine does that - to be compatible). I'm not sure about \??, but see this excerpt from MSDN Re CreateFile: lpFileName [in] Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the name of the object to create or open. In the ANSI version of this function, the name is limited to MAX_PATH characters. To extend this limit to 32,767 wide characters, call the Unicode version of the function and prepend "\\?\" to the path. For more information, see Naming a File. Windows 95/98/Me: This string must not exceed MAX_PATH characters.
