>Thanks, Ed, for this routine. I had occassion to need it today, and it's perfect.

Hi Nancy,

You might want to take a look a my Windows Filenames in the Win32 and Other APIs of the download section. It can retrieve the long from the short and vice versa. As a matter of fact...

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...I just posted an updated version.:-)

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