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From: wallis@labc.enet.dec.com (Barry L. Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: misc
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Date: 7 Jan 91 16:20:07 GMT
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In article <2117@beguine.UUCP>, Rob.Wedlock@samba.acs.unc.edu (Rob Wedlock) writes...
!>For those of you looking for 
!>DOS undocumented: The editor is Schulman, the publisher Addison-Westly
!>I falied to mention that when I mentioned the book before.
!> 
!>For anyone that can use it: A dos interrupt from this book...
!> 
!>ah=60h
!>ds:si:pointer to asciiz file name or path input
!>es:di pointer to 128 byte buffer top hold output, an asciiz string
!>int 21h
!> 
!>you feed it a file name which can include '.','*',network drive letter
!>susbt drives, joined drives, or even files that dont exist yet
!>it spits out a carry if there was an error, or else a fully
!>expanded file name path all capitalized, * -> ??? , capitalized
!>subst drives expanded, networkdrives become \\....
!>However it can expand it to refer to a physical drive pathname , it will.
!> 
!>Hope this helps someone! Thanks for all the help yall have given me
!>!!!
!> 

Thanks! This is just the function I was looking for this weekend (trying to
implement reliable Directory and File objects under C++). What versions of DOS
does it work under?

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