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Re: annoying bug in Windows XP


From: Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:56:09 +0300

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"

-- 
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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