file names longer than MAX_PATH under Windows 2003

[Sergey]

"Claudio Grondi" <claudio.grondi at freenet.de> wrote in message news:dsvims$gps$1 at newsreader3.netcologne.de...
> Sergey wrote:
> I don't know if and how it apply and can be of any help here, but in my C programs in the very past after switching from DOS to 
> Windows long names a following trick solved often my problems with too long names:
>   step 1:  setting the current directory to the beginning part of the name with a length which can be passed as a function 
> parameter
>   step 2:  usage of the remaining part of name as name passed as parameter to the file accessing function (relative to current 
> directory)

It seems this method doesn't help here.