Hmmmm... I think you've gotten beyond VFP and into something odd with the file handling system. Where are you seeing this "MS-DOS" name? I didn't see it in the properties of any of my files, but maybe it's something specific to that file type. At any rate, you've gotten beyond my expertise.

You might want to re-post this with a more specific title. Sometimes threads with a lot of responses will be overlooked and I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to help with this one. I don't see anything in the ADIR() help that says how it matches the files internally. I didn't even know there was a MS-DOS name and a Windows name, other than the 8.3 issue.

Also, if you repost, mention your OS and what version of VFP. Those might be a factor.

Michelle


>Michelle,
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>I will try to explain a little better my delima. I have a directory with about 1700 drawings in it. I use ADir() with cFileSkeleton '842239*.*' This returns me two files. The first is the 842239ea001.cdd. The second file returned is the 849567ea008.cdd. When the directory is physically viewed there is only one file that should be returned. Now if I check the properties of the 849567 file I find that it's MS-Dos name happens to be 842239. How it got this name is a mystery but most of the files we have discovered are like this. Anyway this tells me that the ADir() function polls for the MS-Dos file name and returns the displayed file name. Do you or anyone else know how to poll for the displayed file name?