With VB6 Pro I created a simple filemanager (with filelistbox and
Dirlistbox). I've tested it at home and it works fine. At work (NT 4.0
clients, NetWare 4.11 network with namespaces) I tested it also - but I
found a very strange behaviour:

a file in a path that only contains pathnames <8 characters the filename is
shown correctly (long)

does the path contain (only one is enough) a pathname >8 the filenames in
the filelistbox are cut down to 8.3

Example:

G:\12345678\12345678\longfilename123.txt

results: longfilename123.txt in the filelistbox

G:\1234567890\12345678\longfilename123.txt

results: longfile.txt (8.3) because of the left part of the path
(1234567890)

Can someone explain that behaviour ?
Is this a bug (or a feature)?

Thank you very much

Sven Ryback