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GETDIR() and LFN's
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04/07/1999 03:38:35
Raul Davila
Davila Programming Services
Toa Alta, Puerto Rico
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Internet applications
Title:
GETDIR() and LFN's
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00237276
Message ID:
00237276
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Hi:

I found a weird behavior using getdir().
I made a small "post setup" executable to be run after the installation.
Mainly what it does is ask the user to choose the directory where the app was installed (is there a way to tell the setup to pass the installation directory as a parameter to a post setup exe?).

I call getdir() and when the dialog shows it has 8.3 names in it.
If the user climbs up in the directory hierarchy, then the LFN's show!

eg:
If the current directory was c:\program files, the getdir() dialog shows c:\progra~1 and then if you doubleclick on c:\ you get the whole root directory and this time it shows \Program Files.

Strange thing is I tried to reproduce it from inside VFP and it doesn't happen.

Is this a documented bug?
R. Davila
DBA / Network Administrator
Administracion de Fomento Comercial
Gobierno de Puerto Rico

Still waiting for FoxPro for LINUX
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