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From: dyoung@cup.portal.com (David Michael Young)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Using fopen with HPFS
Message-ID: <32105@cup.portal.com>
Date: 26 Jul 90 15:35:47 GMT
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THe MSC runtime library uses the OS/2 DosOpen function to open up files, which
(unfortunatly) restricts you to the 8.3 convention.  With OS/2 1.2, there is a
new call, DosOpen2, that allows unrestricted file names. 
 
Your best bet is to write a replacement for fopen that uses the right OS call.



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