>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)

Since you're using PUTFILE() (I assumed it was GETFILE()), it's probably because the file name specified doesn't exist. Everthing is correct in the declaration and the call.