From: Euan Mee <lucid@...>
Date: 2001-07-17T10:52:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17956] Re: Path name strangeness under Ruby/Win32

On 15 Jul 2001, at 13:26, David Krider wrote:

> After executing a ruby script on Win2k my path name changes from
> something like:
> 
> C:\dkrider\Src\LightPoint>
> 
> to
> 
> C:\dkrider\Src\LIGHTP~1>
> 
> No big deal, but I was wondering if someone else knows how to
> rectify this behavior.

The easiest way would be to replace "LightPoint" with a new 
name which <= 8 chars long.

At some point, some Win16 code is using the directory name, 
then passing the 8.3 format directory name back to a routine 
which is altering your %path% variable.





Cheers,
     Euan
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