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Subject:	Re: Drag and Drop to Command Line
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Hi,

On Jul 15, 3:25 am, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h DOT  DOT  DOT  AT nohavenot DOT cmm> wrote:
>
> Although I like Sandmann's solution (Hey, how've you been?), the DJGPP
> solution would be to call the DOS LFN API (see RBIL, Int 0x21, AX=71xxh).  I
> recently had the opposite problem.  I needed SFN's for PKZIP (PKZIPFIX,
> actually) on XP.  My app. (for DJGPP v2.03) calls Int 0x21, AX=71A0h to
> determine if LFN's are available, then calls Int 0x21, AX=7160h to convert
> the LFN to SFN.  You should be able to call 7160 to convert an SFN to LFN
> too.  7160 returns the full path (cl=0), short filename (cl=1), or long
> filename (cl=2).  My app. worked on XP SP1 and SP2.  I'm not sure about the
> original version or the new SP3.

You could always just use CMD extensions (e.g. the "for" command):

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[ Vista ] - Thu 07/17/2008 >for %a in (paq8o8z-jul4.zip) do echo %a

[ Vista ] - Thu 07/17/2008 >echo paq8o8z-jul4.zip
paq8o8z-jul4.zip

[ Vista ] - Thu 07/17/2008 >for %a in (paq8o8z-jul4.zip) do echo %~sa

[ Vista ] - Thu 07/17/2008 >echo c:\Armslurp\temp\paq8o8z\PAQ8O8~1.ZIP
c:\Armslurp\temp\paq8o8z\PAQ8O8~1.ZIP

[ Vista ] - Thu 07/17/2008 >for %a in (paq8o8z-jul4.zip) do echo
%~snxa

[ Vista ] - Thu 07/17/2008 >echo PAQ8O8~1.ZIP
PAQ8O8~1.ZIP

[ Vista ] - Thu 07/17/2008 >for %a in (paq8o8z-jul4.zip) do echo %~fa

[ Vista ] - Thu 07/17/2008 >echo c:\Armslurp\temp\paq8o8z\paq8o8z-
jul4.zip
c:\Armslurp\temp\paq8o8z\paq8o8z-jul4.zip
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Might be easier than rewriting the thing.   ;-)

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