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Compare directory name with itself... 8.3
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From
20/03/2018 08:36:05
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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20/03/2018 08:08:30
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Windows API functions
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 7
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01658846
Message ID:
01658848
Views:
51
>>I have a funny problem. I need to copy a file to %temp% folder and I should check whether the source file is actually that same file. I'll check that some other way, probably using LLFF, but while trying to just compare folder names I ran into a problem. The sourcefile's name is retrieved from the file dialog ocx (of msComCtl), and its name looks like c:\users\dnedeljkovich\AppData\Local\temp\something.ext, however my app.tempPath is set from getenv("temp") or sys(2023) which both give c:\users\DNEDEL~1\AppData\Local\temp\something.ext - which is the same path, just that the latter is in dreaded old 8.3 (and yes, issuing set in cmd.exe shows that TEMP environment variable is exactly what getenv() shows).
>>
>>I sort of remember we had (20 years ago) some function which would convert LFNs into 8.3 for comparison. What was it? Anyone with memory better than mine?
>
>This ? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364989(v=vs.85).aspx

Yup, that's it (though it refuses the 3rd parameter). Actually, found it at https://github.com/VFPX/Win32API/blob/master/libraries/kernel32/GetShortPathName.md after looking at the links Doug posted, in Anatoliy's library.

BTW, UT thinks we're on daylight time savings already, because US(-AZ, -HI) and Canada are.

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