>>No luck on this either. I just can't seem to make it work. Here is a more simple approach to the application that didn't work either.
>>
>>DECLARE INTEGER GetShortPathName IN Win32API STRING, STRING, INTEGER
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>>lcLongFile = "c:\program files\somefolder\my file name.doc"
>>lcBuffer = SPACE(511)
>>lnBufferSize = 511
>>lnShortPathLen = GetShortPathName(lcLongFile, @lcBuffer, lnBufferSize)
>>
>>lcShortPath = LEFT(lcBuffer, lnBufferSize)
>>
>>MessageBox(lcShortPath,16,[Test])
>>
>>return
>
>Here's the same thing with a slight modification, but messagebox() showed it right even without it:
>

DECLARE INTEGER GetShortPathName IN Win32API STRING, STRING, INTEGER
>
>lcLongFile = "\\ZMYCHECK\CD ZMYCHECK\SMALL FACES & ROD STEWART\FACES & ROD STEWART - MEMPHIS, TENNESEE.MP3"
>lcBuffer = SPACE(511)
>lnBufferSize = 511
>lnShortPathLen = GetShortPathName(lcLongFile, @lcBuffer, @lnBufferSize)
>
>lcShortPath =Left(lcBuffer,at(chr(0), lcBuffer)-1)
>
>MessageBox(lcShortPath,16,[Test])
>
>* gives \\ZMYCHECK\CD ZMYCHECK\SMALLF~9\FACES&~9.MP3

>Couple of notes:
>- I thought the lnBufferSize must be passed by reference, so its value would reflect the change in size, i.e. would hold the length of the result. On the contrary, it remains unchanged. I tried this as an analogy to GetPrivateProfileString, where it does carry the length.
>- MessageBox, being not a Fox command (it's actually a wrapper around a system call), behaves differently - it stops at the first binary zero, which is a string delimiter in C. In VFP, you still see 511 bytes in lcShortPath, and that's why I changed the line lcShortPath=.
>- Note that in my case it has kept the space in the share name - as far as the OS is concerned, "\\ZMYCHECK\CD ZMYCHECK\" is the drive name, though JustDrive(lcShortPath) would give you nothing, but that's because JustDrive looks for a colon - it's somewhat obsolete and doesn't understand UNCs.

Dragan,

For GetShortPathName(), the size of the buffer doesn't receive a value and is, therefore, passed by value.