>>Hi evrybody,
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>>In FPD2.6 I'm using lockfile to find a file (with .dat extension) and if the file is not found, the dialog comes up. The directory is J:\Telephon\PERG\
>>I changed it from Telephone to Telephon, because I believe it causes problems. Still it returns J:\telepho0\PERG instead of J:\Telephon\PERG.
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>>Is it a well-known bug? What is work around? How long could be a directory name to FPd2.6 to understand correctly?
>>
>>Thanks a lot in advance.
>
>Hi,
>
>I meant locfile, sorry for confusion. Anyway, I confirm this bug with directory name >=8 characters. I just rename it to Phone, and now it works properly.
>
>These stupid bugs steal many hours to debug...

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Nadya,
FPD2.6 cannot handle long names. It wasn't designe to.
Any command that works with files or directories will return name in 8.3 format.