Hi Bill!
Take a look at my Sysinfo class (right here in UT Files). Among the other,
this class have the method for obtaining shortname from longname. In short:
you can use GetShortPathName API call for your stuff
>Without knowing the names ahead of time, do you have a suggestion on how
I
>could acquire the 8.3 file name dynamically? It woulds be the solution I
>need.
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