Hi Mazian!
You can't do it, because the directory with this name doesn't exist. The
short name you can get via Win32API, check the Sysinfo class available here
on UT. But honestly, you can use real long name instead of short name.
>SET DEFA TO c:\progra~1\devstu~1\vfp\fyp
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