>I am having a frustrating time getting GETFILE() to return the name of a selected link file in VFP 6 (VFP 5 does the same). If a link file is selected using GETFILE(), it returns the name and path of the file linked instead of the link file itself. For example, I have a link file called "Visual FoxPro.lnk". It's target is "C:\vfp\vfp.exe". If I select it with GETFILE(), it returns "C:\vfp\vfp.exe" instead of "Visual FoxPro.lnk" (which is what I want it to return).
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>Any clue what it happening here? Thanks.
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Hi Matt,

AFAIK, there's no way to control this behavior. You can use ADIR() to retrieve the contents of a particular directory, however, in VFP 5.0 you won't get the link files with multiple periods such as C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\Visual FoxPro 5.0.lnk. This is corrected in 6.0. I believe that even the Common Dialogs ActiveX Open File dialog behaves the same way.