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From: eric@mks.mks.com (Eric Gisin)
Subject: Re: Using fopen with HPFS
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In-Reply-To: dyoung@cup.portal.com's message of 26 Jul 90 15:35:47 GMT
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: 27 Jul 90 13:29:31
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.From: dyoung@cup.portal.com (David Michael Young)
.
.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. 

No, DosOpen has absolutely no 8.3 restriction.
Most likely they forgot to use "exehdr /newfiles" or equivalent
to mark the EXE file as HPFS-capable.