George,

I have written a little program to test the results of the declaration that you gave me and I just cannot get it to work. Here is my code, can you tell what is wrong?

declare integer GetShortPathName in Win32API string @lpszLongPath, string @lpszShortPath, integer cchBuffer

lnSize = 100
lcBuffer = Space(lnSize)
lcFile = PutFile([Save file as:], [], [wav])
lnResult = GetShortPathName(@lcFile, @lcBuffer, lnSize)
?Left(lcBuffer, lnResult)

return

lnResult is always 0
lcBuffer is remains at space(100)

Thanks

DJ :o)