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Re: annoying bug in Windows XP


From: Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespinola () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:33:40 -0400

Microsoft feels your pain Georgi.  And just for you they are doing
something about it.

http://msexp.streamnavig.com/msexp/player.asp?e=E9999&s=9999_en_w&f=9999_en&uid=00011908A0C27CF6&lng=en&cou=emea


On 10/23/05, Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com> wrote:
sure it is a feature, not a bug.

at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
your idol wrote:
"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant
number of users want fixed."

   * Source: Focus Magazine, nr.43, pages 206-212, (October 23, 1995)

a female melinda is rumored to have said:

"for every chick 8.3cm. is long enough iff it is not macro and not hard"

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where do you want bill gates to go today?



On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 08:53:18AM -0400, joe wrote:
Yep it is a documented function. It is due to the implementation of
FindFirstFile which searches both long file names and short file names.

See Remarks in

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/f
indfirstfile.asp

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