For additional information you could transform short path name to long (on Windows)
with:
GetLongPathName(...)


see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/getlongpathname.asp

----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheldon Gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Marc Br�nink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: NSTemporaryDirectory() && Windows



Marc Br�nink wrote:
Hi folks,

on my Windows machine NSTemporaryDirectory() returns a string like:
~C/DOKUME~1/ADMINI~1/....
So this is the old DOS representation of names which are longer than 8 characters.

That is correct.

Type 'set' at the command prompt on your windows machines and you'll see
that TEMP is uses 8.3 paths

How to convert this string to a nice one like:
c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\..

Does any method exist which implements this conversion?

There is no method in -base you can use for this.

As a matter of interest, why do you want a user presentable path for the
temporary directory?

Isn't it a bit outdated to return a MS-DOS 5.x string?

Backwards compatibility with MS-DOS is a Windows feature.


Regards, Sheldon


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