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LiquidCode · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 3:33 pm Post subject: Short Filename to Long Filename

Is there a way to go from a short filename (C:\Progra~1\MyDocu~1.txt)
to a long file name (C:\Program Files\My Document.txt) ?

Thanks

Tommy · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 3:54 pm Post subject:

Should be easy enough:

LiquidCode · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 5:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks Tommy! I didn't think of that. Confused

Garrett · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 11:41 pm Post subject:

Did it work???

-Garrett

Garrett · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2002 12:24 am Post subject:

Doesn't work for me. It gives me half long name, half shortname.

I went two folders deep, like

c:\progra~1\Internet Explorer

The last half comes out as long file name, but the first half comes as short file name.

-Garrett

Tommy · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2002 12:24 pm Post subject:

You're right Garrett, it happens for me too. I probably see why it does that now. It only sees the last part of the directory as the "filename" to work with, so you probably should only use it for true files and not for file paths anyway, unless you can break the parts in chunks first and process them one by one.

Tommy