# [ref_impl_eiffel] [355] AWB-13: Revision 287 added the class WINDOWS_SHORT_PATH, to ensure that SHARED_RESOURCES.system_temp_file_directory always returned a long path name, rather than an old DOS-style 8.3 tilde-mangled short path name.

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**Created:** 2007-09-03 13:51 UTC
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## Post #1 by @svn1

Revision: 355
Author:   peter\.gummer

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