Thanks for your help, but I must be dense. I don't understand, how does this help me?

I am trying to get the short name for the file. Once I have the name, I will am using it to copy the long file name to the short file name. This file with the short file name is what gets placed on the server.


>You can use GetShortPathName
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>Re: SET PATH and embedded commas Thread #929476 Message #929638
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>>I have a small application that converts word documents to htm files. They are placed on a win 2000 server that has win 3.11 machines connected to it. Therefore to make sure that I can read all of the htm files, I use the short name of the file as the link, copying the longname to the shortname and then link it.

>>It seems that the short names do not link to the long names properly...
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>>Code below
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>>	nDocs=ADIR(longnames,"*.doc","",1)
>>	=ADIR(shortnames,"*.doc","",2)
>>	DIMENSION ProdLinks[ALEN(shortnames,1),2]
>>	FOR y=1 TO ALEN(ShortNames,1)
>>		ProdLinks[y,1]=JUSTSTEM(ShortNames[y,1])
>>		ProdLinks[y,2]=JUSTSTEM(LongNames[y,1])
>>	ENDFOR
>>

>>The issue is that the shortnames do not match... the ones got via dir -x
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