>>>Actually, GetLongPathName works fine. Trouble is it does'nt exist prior to windows 98/2000. Anything I can use that is included in the earlier versions of windows (95,NT)?
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>>SHGetFileInfo(), with any OS implementing Shell v 4.0 or later, including Win95 and WinNT, although you'll have to upgrade the shell components on original Win95 retail installations. It's a good idea to do so IAC, since original Win95 is pretty badly flawed.
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>Ed,
>Thanks for the tip. Trouble is there are several and varied customers out there and several probably do have the retail install of 95. I have been trying to make GetFullPathName work but can figure out how to lpass the last parameter (a pointer) and what it is expecting there, i.e. what it is supposed to point to. Not even sure if that API will work anyway.
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>What do you think?

It's trivial:

DECLARE INTEGER GetFullPathName IN WIN32API ;
   STRING @ LPCTSRSHORTNAME, ;
   STRING @ LPTSRFULLNAME, ;
   INTEGER cbBuffer
cFullName = REPL(chr(0), 262)
nBufLen = 261
IF GetFullPathName('Short\path\name'+CHR(0),@cFullName,nBufLen) # 0
   cFullName = STRTRAN(cFullName,CHR(0),'')
ELSE
   && retrieve error using GetLastError()
ENDIF

It isn't supported by Win95.