no but you can use the API to get the short file name so you would be able to use it in fpw2.6 A guy called Petr Strnad once asked me this and he later came up with the currect API function by himself the VFP syntax is DECLARE INTEGER GetShortPathName IN Win32API ; AS GetShortPathName; STRING address0, STRING @address1, integer buffer retval=GetShortPathName(address0,@address1,buffer) he also said there is a call32.dll (with a foxpro interface) that enables you call 32 bit dlls from FPW2.6 Arnon > > Is there any way to recognize the full text of long file names without > cutting anything using FoxProw 2.6 in Win95? >