Windows and long filenames

From: DrkShadow (anon_at_y.mous.com)
Date: 08/19/04

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    I've written various perlgrams for windows and I'd quite much like to be
    able to drag and drop them. The problem is, when I drag and drop or when I
    throw a file at it via shortcut (send to menu.. really..), it passes a
    short filename, which doesn't work. Just accept that.

    So... I need to know one of two things:
    how do I get windows to pass a long filename? I've looked at exe's in the
    registry, everything is basically the same (DropHandler was copied to perl,
    no effect).

    Alternatively, how do I get a long filename from a short filename? Is there
    a way that exists somewhere?

    -DrkShadow

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