From: jrogers AT cascadenet DOT com (John D. Rogers)
Subject: Re: Getting short name from long name?
4 Feb 1998 16:11:19 -0800
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To: James Pearson <jcpearso AT ge DOT ucl DOT ac DOT uk>
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James Pearson wrote:
> 
> Is there any way I can get the short filename from a long filename using
> gnu-win32 on Win95?
> 
> For example, using readdir() gives the long filename as part of the
> returned struct dirent, but I also need to know its short version.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James Pearson
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I don't know if this will help you or not, but the Win32 API has a
function called GetShortPathName.  The prototype is : 

DWORD GetShortPathName(LPCTSTR lpszLongPath,	// points to a
null-terminated path string
    			LPTSTR lpszShortPath,	// points to a buffer to receive the
null-terminated short form of the path 
    			DWORD cchBuffer 	// specifies the size of the buffer pointed to
by lpszShortPath
   );

Hope you find this useful!
 
John D. Rogers
jrogers AT cascadenet DOT com
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