Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Having said that, if you (that's a collective you, I guess) can > provide us with a cast-iron prescription to obtain the 8.3 version of > the name from its pretty-printing wrapper, then you may all just be in > luck. Does Win32 have such a function in its API for example? > Apparently so: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx? scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q192/8/27.asp&NoWe bContent=1. The function is GetShortPathName. Don't know about the "cast- iron" part, but since it seems to be in the Kernel32 DLL, my guess is it's relatively reliable. -- Paul
