>>I have a memory blackout. I know that VFP has a command to show a "short" path, so that C:\blah\blah\blahblah\blah\myfile.ext is shown as something like C:\bla\...\myfile.ext. But I can't remember the name of this function. Help is appreciated.
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>I think it's API function to get the short path. Did you already search here?

I'm pretty sure that it's a native function.