Function 60h Return Fully Qualified Filename
entry AH 60h
DS:SI Address of ASCIIZ filename
ES:DI Address of buffer to recieve fully qualified filename
Return:
CF set on error
AX = error code
02h invalid component in directory path or drive letter only
03h malformed path or invalid drive letter
ES:DI buffer unchanged
CF clear if successful
AH = 00h or 3Ah (DOS 6.1/6.2 for character device)
AL = destroyed (00h or 2Fh or 5Ch or last character of current directory on drive)
buffer filled with qualified name of form D:\PATH\FILE.EXT or \\MACHINE\PATH\FILE.EXT
Notes:
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Accepts an ASCIIZ (zero-delimited) filename, which may or may not be fully
qualified, and converts in into an unambiguous and fully qualified filename
that includes drive and path designators.
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The input path need not actually exist.
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Letters are uppercased, forward slashes converted to backslashes, asterisks
converted to appropriate number of question marks, and file and directory
names are truncated to 8.3 if necessary. (DR DOS 3.41 and 5.0 do not expand
asterisks).
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'.' and '..' in the path are resolved.
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Filespecs on local drives always start with "d:", those on network drives
always start with "\\".
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If path string is on a JOINed drive, the returned name is the one that would
be needed if the drive were not JOINed; similarly for a SUBSTed, ASSIGNed,
or network drive letter. Because of this, it is possible to get a qualified
name that is not legal under the current combination of SUBSTs, ASSIGNs,
JOINs, and network redirections.
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Under DOS 3.3 through 6.00, a device name is translated differently if the
device name does not have an explicit directory or the directory is \DEV
(relative directory DEV from the root directory works correctly). In these
cases, the returned string consists of the unchanged device name and extension
appended to the string X:/ (forward slash instead of backward slash as in
all other cases) where X is the default or explicit drive letter..
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Under MS-DOS 7.0, this call returns the short name for any long-filename
portions of the provided pathname or filename. Functions which take pathnames
require canonical paths if invoked via INT 21/AX=5D00h.
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Supported by OS/2 v1.1 compatibility box.
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NetWare 2.1x does not support characters with the high bit set; early versions
of NetWare 386 support such characters except in this call. In addition,
NetWare returns error code 3 for the path "X:\"; one should use "X:\." instead..
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Novell DOS 7 reportedly has difficulty with non-MS-DOS filenames on network
drives, and can return "D:" instead of "SERVER/VOLUME".
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For DOS 3.3-6.0, the input and output buffers may be the same, as the
canonicalized name is built in an internal buffer and copied to the specified
output buffer as the very last step.
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For DR DOS 6.0, this function is not automatically called when on a network.
Device drivers rertedly cannot make this call from their INIT function. Using
the same pointer for both input and output buffers is not supported in the
April 1992 and earlier versions of DR DOS.
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Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows95 and even MS-DOS 7.00 only return the
local drive path; to obtain network paths use INT 21/AX=5F02h or INT 21/AX=5F46h
instead.
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Corel's CORELCDX and MSCDEX without the /S switch return canonical names
of the form "\\D.\A.\path", where "D" is the CD-ROM drive letter and "A"
appears to indicate the first physical CD-ROM drive; MSCDEX with the /S switch
returns a canonical name with embedded blanks. Novell DOS 7 NWCDEX as of
the 11/16/94 update returns the same canonical path as MSCDEX; earlier revisions
returned "Cdex. D:\path", where "D" is the CD-ROM drive letter.
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The Windows95 MSCDEX-replacement VxD returns "D:\path", even though the MS-DOS
7.00 MSCDEX behaves identically to older versions (above)
BUG:
Windows95 incorrectly treats filenames where the first two characters after
the drive letter and colon are both slashes (either forward or backward)
as a UNC (network name) and requires several seconds to attempt to resolve
the name before returning an unchanged string
file: /Techref/INT/21f/60.htm, 4KB, , updated: 1999/6/11 15:44, local time: 2024/12/23 21:11,
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